Question ANTS ATE MY GPU!

[igor_kavinski]

Gamer says fire ants infested his PC to eat thermal paste and pads — pics reveal insects proliferating in the GPU around thermal pad debris

The user investigated GPU temps rising – ants were blamed.

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Personally, I lost a PS3 Slim to roach feces

 

[SamMaster]

I had a few cases (pun intended) in my previous work where the defective computer had remains of spiders and cob webs, one being a server. I also saw flies and wasps in laptops.

 

[gdansk]

That's a nightmare. I feel a strong urge to inspect my servers again...

 

[JustViewing]

Ants usually hate heat, should put the pc into stress test mode to generate heat. Both CPU & GPU should be able fry these ants easily .

I also seen motherboards got damaged due to Wasp nest.

 

[Saylick]

Nice, all we have to do is wait 10 years for this person to become a world-class EDM artist known as Deadant5.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I also seen motherboards got damaged due to Wasp nest.

Why the hell do people let wasps get into their homes? Makes no sense to me at all. That's the last thing I want to see buzzing anywhere near where I live.

 

[JustViewing]

Why the hell do people let wasps get into their homes? Makes no sense to me at all. That's the last thing I want to see buzzing anywhere near where I live.

I think it is from small non venomous wasp. They build nest using clay. I think the moisture from the clay, destroys the tracings little by little.

 

[BoomerD]

Ants usually hate heat, should put the pc into stress test mode to generate heat. Both CPU & GPU should be able fry these ants easily .

I also seen motherboards got damaged due to Wasp nest.

Tawny crazy ants, AKA Rasberry Crazy Ants...LOVE electronics.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

We have a STRICT no food outside of the kitchen/dining room thing at our house and it has kept bug problems at an absolute minimum over the years.

No food on the couches, no food in bedrooms, etc.

Only exception is if we're throwing a party, and those virtually always happen in the backyard where multiple trash bins are available.

Wife and I get an exception for a beer/wine/drink at a computer or craft table, but the kids drink water and unless it's in a bottle it stays... At the dinning table.

Furniture lasts longer, no ant/fly/wasp infestations ever, feel psychologically better about life.

 

[MrPickins]

Tawny crazy ants, AKA Rasberry Crazy Ants...LOVE electronics.

So do fire ants. Many a well pump and A/C compressor have been shorted out by them...

 

[igor_kavinski]

Must be the electromagnetic fields.

 

[moonbogg]

I want to kill them all.

 

[gdansk]

I want to kill them all.

The GPUs or the ants?

 

[Shmee]

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[igor_kavinski]

YIKES

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