The troubles with flagship graphics cards always seem to be related to quality control issues. Recently, a user of an RTX 5090 graphics card broke the news on a social platform, saying that the fan of the graphics card would make a "howling" noise during the game. Unable to bear it, he decided to dismantle the card to find out what was going on. As a result, he discovered a ridiculous heat dissipation "tragedy".
After disassembling the card, the user found that the liquid thermal pad (actually thermal grease) applied to the graphics card when it left the factory was severely excessive, and a large amount of silicone grease was extruded and overflowed, covering the entire PCB board. However, the irony is that the most critical GPU core die has almost no effective silicone grease coverage on its surface and is in a "dry burning" state.
This extremely uneven application method causes the core heat to be unable to be efficiently conducted to the heat dissipation module, forming local hot spots. The heat dissipation efficiency is greatly reduced, and the fan is forced to run at high speed for a long time, resulting in a huge noise that is intolerable to users. Users are also worried that if the graphics card is installed vertically, the spilled liquid silicone grease may even drip onto the motherboard, causing potential risks to other hardware.
This incident also triggered discussions among players about the factory quality control of high-end graphics cards. Previously, the RTX 5090 series has attracted much attention due to the melting problem of the power supply interface, and this time the "low-level error" in the application of thermal conductive media has once again cast a shadow on the cooling reliability of the flagship graphics card.