Is my GeForce 6600 damaged?

[sim1984]

Hi I recently took my graphics card out to clean it and noticed soemthing disturbing...

My card is an Nvidia GeForce 6600 and when I lifted off the fan to clean I noticed this white substance that appeared to be leaking out of the chip.

Is the chip damaged?

 

[red1776]

when you say "lifted up the fan" do you mean the heat-sink also? GPU's also have thermal compound that is used between the GPU heat spreader and the surface of the heat-sink. the factory thermal compound is often white/grey in color. when you reassemble the heat-sink/fan you need to clean the old thermal compound off and re-apply new compound to it, or the next time you start your machine your card will burn up in about 4 seconds.