Question Can excess thermal paste short a gpu?

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I had a overflowing thermal paste on cpu issue, so I took it in to the shop to check it out. They are telling me I need to replace both the motherboard and my graphics card, because "thermal paste got in the teeth of the gpu, shorting it out".

Is this possible? Or is it a sales tactic?

I cant really find much relevant info online, if this does happen, is it repairable?

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Any help would be greatly appreciated. Replacing a GPU would be so expensive 🙁


Specs:
intel i7
msi x99 motherboard
nvidia 1080 gpu
16gb ram
 
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