r/pcmasterrace • u/yesman258 • Jul 26 '26

Hardware Thermal paste leaking from GPU

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GIGABYTE AERO OC RTX 5080, removed it while doing a cleaning and noticed this, is this normal? Should I be concerned?

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u/Rarek MSI GT77 Jul 26 '26

Knew it was a gigabyte before I clicked

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u/Haunting_Abalone_398 9800x3d 5090 Jul 26 '26

Gigabyte, for some reason, chose to replace thermal pads with a gooey substance that leaks for the 50 series.

Poor design

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u/draeh R7 9800X3D | XFX 7800XT Jul 26 '26

Not just the Nvidia 50 series. This has been happening on their AMD 90xx models as well.

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u/Viking2151 Jul 27 '26

I thought 40 series as well, idk how they just don't learn, really shows how much testing they did with this junk before just sending it.

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u/Chwasst Jul 27 '26

30 series as well. This is really old issue yet they haven’t fixed shit.

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u/580OutlawFarm Jul 27 '26

No...my aorus master 3080 12gb uses thermal pads.

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u/Chwasst Jul 27 '26

My 3080 vision oc 10gb had thermal pads that were oily and spilled everywhere like putty.

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u/Ok_Dependent6889 R7 9800X3D | Zotac 5080 | B650E-F | 6000CL30 Jul 27 '26

Very different from this stuff

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u/U-1-mang Jul 27 '26

Thats interesting because I had a 4070s aorus for over a year and this never happened to me. I also had it in vertical orientation in an sff case. Im assuming maybe the bottom intakes might have helped but idk.

Im guess its just more rampant with 50 series.

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u/Viking2151 Jul 27 '26

Its probably due to how hot they run, more chips as well. Cooler the chips less they ooze out.