What the HECK Gigabyte... WHY?

JayzTwoCents October 9, 2025
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Gigabyte used a "Server Grade Thermal Gel" in their 50 series GPUs and recently users have reported that it has started to ooze out of their GPUs... so I decided to tear down my AORUS (Gigabyte) 5090 and immediately regretted it.... Sponsored Links Falcon Northwest has been building high end systems for gamers since 1992! Learn more about what Falcon Northwest has to offer at https://www.falcon-nw.com/ ○ Get your JayzTwoCents Merch Here! - https://www.jayztwocents.com ○ Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkWQ0gDrqOCarmUKmppD7GQ/join ○ Join the official JTC Discord! https://discord.gg/jayztwocents ○○○○○○ Items featured in this video available at Amazon ○○○○○○ ► Amazon US - https://amzn.to/43wnUsz ► Amazon UK - http://amzn.to/Zx813L ► Amazon Canada - http://amzn.to/1tl6vc6 ••• Follow me on your favorite Social Media! ••• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jayztwocents Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jayztwocents Instagram: http://instagram.com/jayztwocents# SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/sub2JayzTwoCents 00:00 Intro 00:42 Dripping putty issues 04:03 Jay's Aorus 5090 05:43 Teardown and Reapplication 09:26 Jay's thoughts on thermal putty 11:30 Temperature test results 17:55 Wrap-up

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