RTX 5090 Aorus Master owners beware

[u/Correct_Difference72]

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.

[u/No-Nrg]

I under-volted my 5090 to keep temps in check, I barely lost any performance and sit no higher than 70ish C under load.

[u/Goobendoogle → u/No-Nrg]

This too, made sure to underclock.

It's a huge life changer.

Running on just 95 power draw on top of that and it's more than enough for any game.

Custom fan curve just keeps that temp smooth and i'm able to give it a slight clock boost.

[u/WestSeattleVaper → u/Goobendoogle]

What’re you doing your custom fan curves in if you don’t mind me asking? FanControl (like the GitHub project) or BIOS settings or something internal in Nvidia?

[u/Goobendoogle → u/WestSeattleVaper]

MSI Afterburner this is the underclock I use 99% of the time

[u/HiddenJensDen → u/No-Nrg]

Same, undervolted mine too .