Writing about hardware is an often humbling experience. More recently than I'd like to admit, I popped open a PC case only to ask '...what is that?' Embarrassingly, that was my first encounter with a particularly stylish GPU riser bracket—a bit of kit that allows for vertical installation of your graphics card. Unfortunately for some folks with vertically mounted Gigabyte RTX 50-series cards, they've peeked inside their PC case only to see something far more worrying.
The saga began last month, when a translated post from a Quasar Zone user alleged that the thermal gel on their Gigabyte Aorus Master Ice RTX 5080 appeared to be "crawling out". They claimed to have only had the card for a month, having used it to play World of Warcraft for about two hours every day—hardly the heaviest of performance loads. Now, a number of other users have taken to the TechPowerUp forum to share that the thermal gel on their Gigabyte cards also appears to be either melting or otherwise making a break for it (via Videocardz).
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