Thermal paste pump-out on GPUs, why does nobody warn you about it

I was swapping a cooler on my 3-year-old 3080 last week and the die was nearly bare in the middle, looked up pump-out online and now I'm wondering how many of us are out there with hot cards from just standard mounting pressure?

2 comments

Log in to join the discussion

Log In

2 Comments

lunaf673d ago

Wait, you actually pulled the cooler and saw bare die in the middle? I always figured pump-out was mostly a laptop thing and that desktops were fine with stock mounting. Now I'm side eyeing my own 3080 that's been running hot for a year lol.

3

amy9743d ago

Honestly nah, desktops pump out too, seen it plenty.

5