I'm honestly pretty pissed off right now.

Today, I opened my PC for my usual monthly cleaning and discovered something that I absolutely did not expect to see on a relatively new, high-end graphics card: the thermal paste on my Gigabyte AORUS RTX 5080 appears to have shifted or run downwards while the card was mounted vertically.

Let that sink in for a moment. This is an expensive, high-end GPU, and I'm using a vertical mount that Gigabyte explicitly states is supported. I didn't install the card in some crazy, unsupported position. I mounted it in a way the manufacturer says is perfectly fine.

So how is this acceptable?

I'm paying a premium for a product like this, and I expect the cooling solution to be properly designed and assembled. Having what appears to be thermal paste migration like this on a relatively new GPU is seriously concerning. I'm now left wondering whether the thermal interface is still making proper contact, whether cooling performance has been affected, and whether this could potentially cause problems down the line.

Why does a GPU that is explicitly advertised as suitable for vertical mounting appear to have this issue in that very configuration?

Is this a known problem with the RTX 5080 AORUS series? Has anyone else experienced something similar?

I'll attach pictures showing what I found during the cleaning.

Gigabyte, I'd genuinely like an explanation here. Customers shouldn't have to question the integrity of an expensive GPU's cooling solution simply because they use a mounting orientation that the manufacturer itself supports.

Really disappointing to discover this during what should have been a completely routine cleaning.

Morning everyone!

So after doing ( and learning..still) another mVolt adjustment on my Gigabyte 5070ti oc

I wanted to see what score I would achieve with everything on. Every app I run on a daily basis.

I have to say, I love this card. Never went above 64c !

I think it's a decent score.

I recently bought an a16 i7 13620h/rtx 5060. For the first few days (prior update BIOS/GiMate) it feels great, it was already affected by the CPU power cap that many others also experience I think which pretty much explains why I only get 200 or frequently lower to 170 in Valorant Team Deathmatch , I get 240fps where i cap at stable in deathmatch, for competitive drops to 180 sometimes where many utils are used. But after updating BIOs to fb06 and gimate newest version (where turbo fan mode no longer exists) , my TDM in valorant stutters with bigger range and for frequently , going down to 140 150, deathmatch stutters whole lot. I also felt like my Minecraft fps also went down by 30 fps (I use shaders so before around 260fps now 216fps). I wonder if there's anyway that i can overcome this?. Also I would like to hear your experience post updating or just the general experience of this laptop. Thank you so much.

Hi, I recently built a pc for the 2nd time. While mounting the CPU cooler one of the screws fell on top of the motherboard and bounced away. Does this section of the motherboard look ok? I'm scared of turning it on and accidentally frying my cpu

The board is a gigabyte aorus elite b850 WiFi 7.

I have been using an Asrock Nova wifi x870E for 1,5 years and it suddenly decided my CPU didn't deserve to live. I am in the process of RMAing my CPU and motherboard, but I will definitely change to another brand.

Since My GPU is an Aorus (Master), I thought getting a Gigabyte mobo would be better so I can configure both my GPU and motherboard with the same software.

From what I can tell, the lane sharing is great on this board, the only downside is the sound chip. I actually already have a sound blaster AE-5 Plus, so I will use that anyway.

Anything else you want to mention before I pull the trigger on this?

If a new gaming desktop is already on your shopping list, here's another factor worth considering before you decide on your components.

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Hey everyone,
I recently bought a GIGABYTE AERO X16, and I’ve noticed something about the hinges that I’m not sure is normal.
When the screen is almost fully closed (around 10 degrees before closing completely), it suddenly falls shut under its own weight when I let go.
The hinges feel fine at wider angles, but near the closed position, the screen seems to lose resistance and closes on its own.

I have tried to delete the GCC and install back, the same with drivers, and just a lot of other stuff. The sensors seem to be alright but the GCC somehow just fails. Te GPU is showed right so it is terrible. The most terrible part is that i means the fans work always like the CPU have 61°C so i can't use it hard without changing the fan speed by hand. Anyone knows the fix? I have the newest GCC and drivers from the official website. The laptop specs and model: Gigabyte G6X 9KG
CPU: Intel Core i7-13650HX (14 cores / 20 threads, up to 4.9 GHz)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop (8 GB, ~105W)
RAM: 16 GB DDR5 (expandable to 64 GB)
Display: 16″ 1920×1200, 165 Hz
Storage: ~1 TB NVMe SSD (PCIe Gen4)

EDIT: The issue is somehow fixed after... going into the BIOS and then just starting the laptop like always. The post stays just to see if anyone knows what have happened. Have a good day.

Please guys vote me 😭