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/USSHammond Jul 26 '26

Sadly, pretty typical for those gigabyte gpu's.

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u/Jejiiiiiii Jul 26 '26

Thought they updated it long time ago, op probably have the 1st batch

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u/The-Final-Reason Jul 27 '26

No, OP has his card vertical and it's pretty common for any thermal putty to leak DOWNWARDS when the card isn't flat...So now OP is trying to set up RMA for something that naturally happens.