Is it possible to damage a gpu with thermal paste ?

[leodiavata]

So i cleaned up my brother's pc yesterday and changed the thermal paste on cpu and gpu. The pc would not boot up. I started removing parts and testing them on my system. I concluded that the gpu was the problem. I oppened it up again and saw that some thermal paste had leaked from the chip to the surrounding green area that had lost its color and became like really dark brown ( might upload a photo of it tomorrow). So did I just kill the gpu with the paste or what ? Is that even possible ? Thank you all in advance.

[WoodenMarker]

If the thermal paste is electrically conductive, it could damage or kill a graphics card. 

[Emanuel_M]

So i cleaned up my brother's pc yesterday and changed the thermal paste on cpu and gpu. The pc would not boot up. I started removing parts and testing them on my system. I concluded that the gpu was the problem. I oppened it up again and saw that some thermal paste had leaked from the chip to the surrounding green area that had lost its color and became like really dark brown ( might upload a photo of it tomorrow). So did I just kill the gpu with the paste or what ? Is that even possible ? Thank you all in advance.

you burned your gpu out.

[cloclo8003]

My guess is that it shorted something and killed the GPU.

[leodiavata]

Well fuck

[iamdarkyoshi]

wipe the excess off and pray to the GPU gods that it works. Somewhat unlikely that it will though.

[0x1e]

I never use conductive thermal paste for this reason.