Went to PTM7950 my Gigabyte RTX 5070 Ti SFF, and got a closer look at the leakage. I’ve only had it a month and the thermal putty’s already melting into the finstack. Temps don’t seem to be worsening from it moving (yet, and it’s hard to tell due to there only being one sensor), but now that it’s melted in it’s extremely difficult to get out. Ironic that there’s all the putty all over the card yet the core itself is dry as it is.
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The fact that there is so much crap stacked up means that the cooler is actually not making good contact with the board and there isnt that much clamp force squishing out the paste, that might be why they’re stacking it up. Usually the layer that is left behind is very thin (as it should be) somewhat closer to what the core looks like even though that core probably needs some extra paste.
Someone’s last day or worries about HEAT taken past the edge of madness but just a tiny bit?
That is quit a bit there, I couldn’t wind up with a 5000 series because I was ticked at dropping support of PhysX.
I went 9070 and expecting still good enough for 1440p and finally for as long as it lasts, I’m satisfied and aging eyes, 1440p be sweet coming from 640 by 480 and worse, yeha!
Gigashyte at it again
I took my 9070xt apart and it looked good to be fair. Still cleaned it up and gave it ptm7950 and cxh1300 putty. Might as well do it before the crappy paste on the die dries out
This looks more like they applied way too much at the factory and poor contact. I’m guessing this is one of the early batches – what’s the first 4 digits of your SN? Should give year and week of production.
Just don’t buy Gigabyte GPUs. 30 Series had their defective 8-pin PCIe power pins popping out, 40 series had their cracked PCBs due to their own cooler weight, and 50 series has leaking paste
Why does the putty/thermal compound look like the top of a McCain Deep’n Delicious Cake?! 😩
https://preview.redd.it/ihuj8lgkvl5f1.jpeg?width=460&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9a603e00a4720f47fb5c8a67f2debff7ecd9715a
50 series goes so hard like
There was a news article about this at Tom’s hardware saying one user at China, replaced Gigabyte 9070XT thermal gel and lower the temp by 7’C.
You dummies defended this for months. I told you so.
Is the paste applied by human or machine in the factory? That looks disgusting.
What a piece of shit of generation
I think i will go back to play gba games
Just like the play station 5 console leaking liquid metal
[https://www.techspot.com/news/97192-mounting-ps5-vertically-might-lead-catastrophic-failure-liquid.html](https://www.techspot.com/news/97192-mounting-ps5-vertically-might-lead-catastrophic-failure-liquid.html)
Took 5 years but its fixed now
[https://gamerant.com/ps5-pro-playstation-5-liquid-metal-design-flaw-fix/](https://gamerant.com/ps5-pro-playstation-5-liquid-metal-design-flaw-fix/)
They will fix this eventually even though they should do a recall/refund on them asap over time this could get very bad for the card.
I made the mistake of using thermal paste in place of thermal pads when repasting one of my old laptops long ago. Needless to say, I had hot running memory.
While we’re shitting on Gigabyte, I have an MSI. Anybody have horror stories about their cards or mobos?
Man this is horrible glad I skipped this generation 😂
Gigabyte is shit, you always have to re paste and pad their cards. My 3080 went from thermal throttle to high 70s after tearing it down.
Damn dude, they went to town on yours. Luckily, it looks like my Gigabyte 9070 XT wasn’t over applied, I’ve had it for over a month and it hasn’t leaked all over. I’m still keeping an eye on it just in case though,
This is ugly. This came from the factory like this?
I wouldn’t buy anymore gigabyte cards until they address this. This could have caused the card to overheat under worst case conditions
I’ve had 3 gigabyte graphics cards over the last 20 years. Not one of then lasted more than a year and a half.
First one was an Radeon x800, that lived for 1.5 years and then died.
Bought another card about 6 years later and that died after a couple months.
Last card was about 2015 and was actually dead on arrival (completely nonfunctional) and I had to send it back.
I tend to avoid them for any graphics cards now.
Need that industrial grade thermal pussy.
Not sure if it’s the production date/SN or that mine is inverted horizontal or just luck, but my 5090 is great.
(Can’t link in this sub, but you can see my recent post and pics in my profile)
I’ve gotten the top 1 or 2 Nvidia GPU from Gigabyte for the last several generations without issue. Each is still in perfect service (handed down to family as I replace it).
None of this is meant to take away from those having issues. Just hope people realize that each person’s experience is their own.
OMG NOT ANOTHER HARMLESSLY LEAKING CARD. What a world we live in where just oozing slightly gets so much hate. Molecular mobile silicone blobs have rights too!
I see thin and runny thermal putty, but putty traveling between components and being a bitch to remove is normal. I don’t consider this a defect though… the putty was almost squished into the core grease and those two aren’t compatible.
The amount of thermal paste on the core was good. The putty running a train on the VRAM is ideal. The thin putty travelling into the fins isn’t good, but it’s entirely correctable.
For this brand and series, this is like, B+. I’ve seen so much worse.
I have a Aorus Master 5080. Do I realistically have anything to worry about? How do I find out if my GPU is leaking thermal paste?
Leak paste….If temps are fine just clean it and be done with it
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that is a wild amount of thermal paste, some PC builders barely use thermal paste and nvidia is doing this
Highly inappropriate pics, needs a 18+ disclaimer.
From what I’ve been seeing, it has just been Gigibytes issue. Has anyone be having this issue with other brands?
Would it be better to wipe clean off all that goop and replace it with thermal pads?
Just wondering because eventually I will need to replace my GPU, and wondered if doing this right off the bat would save me trouble down the line.
Absolutely way too much paste.
Glad I waited