They definitely are cheaping out. I bought a Powercolor Hellhound 7900 XTX last month, and it was running 60°c while totally idle. I got a Thermal Grizzly Kryosheet for it and when I opened the card, there was already significant thermal pump-out in the paste with completely bare spots on the die. That card was brand new with less than 8 hours use when I opened it. After installing the Kryosheet, all temps dropped 20°c.
It’s total horseshit that even top end GPUs made by “reputable” manufacturers are shipping with cheap shitty paste.
Honestly must have been a manufacturing error. Which is no excuse, QC should have caught it.
You’d think that high prices would mean the ability to have higher quality manufacturing without affecting the margin much. But I think much of that money is going to TSMC, Nvidia and AMD, with third-party manufacturers getting squeezed as well. But idk.
They definitely are cheaping out. I bought a Powercolor Hellhound 7900 XTX last month, and it was running 60°c while totally idle. I got a Thermal Grizzly Kryosheet for it and when I opened the card, there was already significant thermal pump-out in the paste with completely bare spots on the die. That card was brand new with less than 8 hours use when I opened it. After installing the Kryosheet, all temps dropped 20°c.
It’s total horseshit that even top end GPUs made by “reputable” manufacturers are shipping with cheap shitty paste.
Honestly must have been a manufacturing error. Which is no excuse, QC should have caught it.
You’d think that high prices would mean the ability to have higher quality manufacturing without affecting the margin much. But I think much of that money is going to TSMC, Nvidia and AMD, with third-party manufacturers getting squeezed as well. But idk.