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Red fire ants are a real nightmare, as they're attracted to electronics - and literally ate a GPU, or bits of it, alive. Not for the first time, either...
The story goes like this: Redditor Thejus_Parol says that they noticed rising GPU temperatures with their Zotac GTX 1060.
When investigating what might be going on, checking if the fans could have malfunctioned, they discovered "ants marching on my GPU and on top of my case" and even coming out of the graphics card's heatsink.
Taking apart the graphics card revealed that red imported fire ants, which aren't native to the US, were inside and eating the thermal pads and thermal paste.
The Redditor used a hair dryer to blow all the ants out of the board, cleaned their PC, and then used an anti-insect spray on the table the computer sits on.
Thejus_Parol explains that they have no idea how the ants got into the PC, and that they just seemed to appear out of nowhere. The even worse news was that the anti-insect spray seemed completely ineffective in deterring another invasion, as later on, another set of ants moved into the PC.
And the second wave of ants was doing the exact same thing, eating bits of the GPU alive (that thermal paste is pretty tasty, by all accounts).
Red fire ants are a real nightmare, as they're attracted to electronics - and literally ate a GPU, or bits of it, alive. Not for the first time, either...
The story goes like this: Redditor Thejus_Parol says that they noticed rising GPU temperatures with their Zotac GTX 1060.
When investigating what might be going on, checking if the fans could have malfunctioned, they discovered "ants marching on my GPU and on top of my case" and even coming out of the graphics card's heatsink.
Taking apart the graphics card revealed that red imported fire ants, which aren't native to the US, were inside and eating the thermal pads and thermal paste.
The Redditor used a hair dryer to blow all the ants out of the board, cleaned their PC, and then used an anti-insect spray on the table the computer sits on.
Thejus_Parol explains that they have no idea how the ants got into the PC, and that they just seemed to appear out of nowhere. The even worse news was that the anti-insect spray seemed completely ineffective in deterring another invasion, as later on, another set of ants moved into the PC.
And the second wave of ants was doing the exact same thing, eating bits of the GPU alive (that thermal paste is pretty tasty, by all accounts).
