A recent report from a user has brought attention to a serious issue with the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5080 AORUS MASTER ICE graphics card. Just one month after buying the GPU, the user noticed a strange problem—thermal gel inside the card had started leaking. This thermal gel is supposed to replace normal thermal pads and is advertised by Gigabyte as "server-grade" and non-liquid. But in this case, the gel became runny and began leaking toward the PCIe riser, which could cause big damage if not fixed quickly. The user said that they had always used the GPU in a vertical position, which might have made the leak worse. Normally, this kind of problem happens after a long time, not just in one month. This shows that the issue likely came from a mistake during Gigabyte’s quality check before the card was sold.