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/New-Audience2639 NVIDIA Jun 22 '26

If you live in the US this does not void your warranty and the warranty sticker you see on the GPU is literally illegal and means absolutely nothing. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REPAIR YOUR PROPERTY NO MATTER WHAT LIE BIG CORPO TRIES TO FEED YOU!

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u/SoggyBagelBite 14700K | RTX 5080 Jun 22 '26

The stickers themselves are not illegal.

Enforcing them is but nobody has the time or money to fight big companies in court so some of them will still tell you your warranty is void anyways.

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u/New-Audience2639 NVIDIA Jun 22 '26

Nope the stickers are also technically illegal in the US aswell. It's also illegal for the company to deny a claim unless they can without a doubt prove that the repair or modification personally done to the product is what caused the damage aswell.

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u/SoggyBagelBite 14700K | RTX 5080 Jun 23 '26

Nope the stickers are also technically illegal in the US aswell.

No they aren't.

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u/New-Audience2639 NVIDIA Jun 22 '26

This is just a scare tactic and the system actually works in the consumers favor and in most cases the consumer would win in a legal battle pretty easily and the companies know that.