Glass Panel hot from GPU.

[Zafras]

So my GPU is a rtx 2080ti. Usually runs about 71C under load...

but it produces a lot of heat and a lot of it gets blown onto the side panel. I didn't think it was an issue but i took off the panel to make adjustments but before I could... the panel crumbled in my hands...

pictures added. .. is this normal?. It was essentially a brand new case i got as well. I don't have any room for intake fans but i do have three exhaust fans. I have a front mounted radiator which acts as an intake but i don't imagine it brings in acool air. (my case could only fit the radiator as a front mount unfortunately). So i'm going to have to buy a replacement panel but .. how do i prevent that from shattering from heat as well?.. 

[Moonzy]

3 minutes ago, Zafras said:

So i'm going to have to buy a replacement panel but .. how do i prevent that from shattering from heat as well?

you don't

you just got unlucky and got a piece of unstable tempered glass, which happens but quite rarely, unless if the production line has QC issues

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

3 minutes ago, Zafras said:

pictures added

Can you provide them in a more standard way? Like this:

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Tempered glass can shatter when it is heated non-uniformly.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

This is just a bad price of glass, has nothing to do with the temperature.

The air that comes out of the gpu can't behotter than 71c, and tempered glass will melt at over 1000c, if I understand it right.

[Zafras]

8 minutes ago, HairlessMonkeyBoy said:

Can you provide them in a more standard way? Like this:

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Tempered glass can shatter when it is heated non-uniformly.

Yeah!. The glass was definitely heated non-uniformly. The area around the gpu was really hot to touch where as everything else was cool as ice. So the guy im getting a replacement panel from said this can happen due to heat.. ~_~. I mean i guess i could always just not.. get a new panel and do an open airflow thing. But the panel did get super hot to touch around the gpu area.

[StDragon]

Get a vertical GPU bracket; that way heat doesn't blow directly against the glass.

[Alex Atkin UK]

19 minutes ago, Zafras said:

Yeah!. The glass was definitely heated non-uniformly. The area around the gpu was really hot to touch where as everything else was cool as ice. So the guy im getting a replacement panel from said this can happen due to heat.. ~_~. I mean i guess i could always just not.. get a new panel and do an open airflow thing. But the panel did get super hot to touch around the gpu area.

I don't buy that excuse, phones also use tempered glass and are heated none-uniformly by the SoC.  It was just a bad piece of glass, it happens.  If this was a normal thing to happen to all tempered glass, this forum would be full of people experiencing it.

[Moonzy]

19 minutes ago, Zafras said:

But the panel did get super hot to touch around the gpu area.

"super hot" by hand means nothing to a tempered glass, just saying

[Alex Atkin UK]

Just now, Moonzy said:

"super hot" by hand means nothing to a tempered glass, just saying

Surely glass top electric hobs are also tempered glass and heated non-uniformly to much higher temperatures.

[Zafras]

i'd like to add that i did grab the panel with my hand and held it from the side (the area where the gpu blows most of the air) and that was also the spot from where it started shattering as i could feel where the breakage occurred first. But i suppose i'll just get a replacement and hope the same thing doesn't happen. thanks

[Moonzy]

2 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Surely glass top electric hobs are also tempered glass and heated non-uniformly to much higher temperatures.

glass have different treatments

 

glass that is expected to handle hot stuff (like dining table tops) not only go through tempering, they also go through certain heat treatments to stabilize it

 

tempered glass are unstable crystals that will continue to change, and will shatter eventually

though a lot of the very unstable ones shatter right as they exit the tempering machine, but there are cases where they shatter few years later, albeit quite rare

i worked with glass machinery for a bit, so i learned about this roughly from colleagues

[Jeppes]

Just get them to replace it. It was either damaged in shipping or prior to that if it broke in normal use. Do not be a doormat.