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VRM grease fried gpu

chaz69
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My Asus maximus 7 hero vrm apparently leaked grease onto the pci slot and fried my 1080ftw.  Has this happened to anyone else?  I've tried contacting asus but they gave me the run around "because the board is out of warranty and the gpu isn't asus they can't help me lol.  

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20 minutes ago, chaz69 said:

My Asus maximus 7 hero vrm apparently leaked grease onto the pci slot and fried my 1080ftw.  Has this happened to anyone else?  I've tried contacting asus but they gave me the run around "because the board is out of warranty and the gpu isn't asus they can't help me lol.  

Don't they usually use pads for VRMs? 

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How do you know it's the grease that killed it? Could be many things. The oils in thermal pads should be non conductive but of course dust and dirt can change this. 

 

Thermal pads as far as I know are being soaked with these kind of oils to actually make them work as thermal pads. Once they dry out (or oil out) they become less heat conductive to the point of useless eventually. Again: the oils should not be electrically conductive.

 

What is more likely is that one of those mosfets was not of great quality and might just have popped. A 1080FTW is several years old. It's rare for chips these days to die after years of usage (it's more likely for caps to pop) but it can happen. It could also be a bad solder joint that aged badly increasing resistance resulting in more heat.

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