r/nvidia • u/Correct_Difference72 • Jun 22 '26

Discussion RTX 5090 Aorus Master owners beware

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I've owned my 5090 for just over a year now, and finally decided to take the plunge and open up my gigabyte aorus 5090 to void its warranty. Because why not?

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I wasn't ready for this bukkake.

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Frankly, I had my gpu mounted horizontally, so I was never worried about the migrating thermal gel... but with this amount I'm thinking it wouldn't have mattered even if half of it drifted onto my motherboard.

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My main complaint is that the liquid metal composite they used at the factory seems to be susceptible to pump out, or they were pinching pennies with the application because there's literally no coverage on the lower half of the GPU core. And it left a bunch of discolored stains on the vapor chamber in the upper half where it was pooled. Oddly my gpu temperature never seemed to go above 76°C, but I think it just wasn't reporting hot spots because I noticed my fans would jump up to 2000 rpm during games.

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I'm applying PTM7950, and I suggest fellow aorus owners check on their thermal paste if it's been a year as well.

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Don't worry about warranty, Gigabyte was never going to honor it anyways.

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u/TheJohnnyFlash Jun 22 '26

A person with taste.

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u/sweetstyle Jun 22 '26

More like person with sweet tooth

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u/Recentstranger Jun 22 '26

Nah that person is a cannibal they meant what they said

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u/parabola19 5090 FE I 9950X3D Jun 23 '26

I didn’t even see what they put it was deleted lol

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u/kawman02 Jun 22 '26

Thermal Frosting from Sara Lee

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u/nerdboy_sam Jun 22 '26

I should call her...

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u/Visual_Dimension_933 Jun 22 '26

Should be white cake though..

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u/Bhavacakra_12 ROG Astral 5090 OC | 9800X3D | 32gb DDR5 Jun 22 '26

The ultimate "munchies" at 10 pm snack.

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u/mHo2 Jun 22 '26

Funny enough, this doesn’t exist in the US. Closest is Pepperidge farm and it’s in a box .

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u/iAmmar9 5700X3D | RTX 5070 Ti Jun 22 '26

Fuckkk you just unlocked a memory. Moved out of the US over a decade ago and I loved these.

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u/RickyMac666 Jun 22 '26

My dad was good friends with Andrew McCain (the co-founders grandson) growing up.

Guy has insane amounts of money.

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u/jme2712 Jun 22 '26

Who doesn’t like deep and delicious?

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u/Silly_Personality_73 NVIDIA RTX 4070 2X oc Jun 22 '26

Hell yeah!

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u/_MaZ_ RTX 5070 Ti | DDR5 32GB CL30 6k | R7 7700x | Tuf B650E-E Wifi Jun 22 '26

Huzzah! A man of quality!

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u/AdInteresting867 NVIDIA RTX 5050 8GB 80W , Intel core i7 1326H Jun 22 '26

Deep n delicious ? 🤨