Question What is that white stuff around the microchips?

[dpaladinnyuu]

My friend sent me this photo of his RX 460. He told me it's been overheating for the last days and now it doesn't even boot.

He opened his graphic and saw this weird thing. I looked at other pictures of that card and i didn't see the same.

https://imgur.com/E8DIz7n

View: https://i.imgur.com/E8DIz7n.jpg

 

[Darkbreeze]

Thermal paste.