Graphics cards got water on them.

kalvindeane · 10 Mar 2011 at 18:22

Made a thread about this a while ago. My H50 has apparently leaked over my 5770's. I was using the computer when the display stopped working, took a look inside and they had water on them, so I was obviously running them with water on the cards.

Contacted Corsair, no reply. The cards both seem to be working, but how can I test if their performance has been hit? I'm playing rift atm with crossfire enabled, on medium settings, not moving or doing anything particularly graphically intensive (staring at a flight of stairs ingame), and I'm getting 22fps. Friend of mine has a 5830 which gets 50fps on full settings so this seems very low to me!

Are there any programs I can use to test their performance?

scubes · 10 Mar 2011 at 18:24

the only thing id do is play games and also you could use some of the benchmarking software like vantage and so on...

Colasanto · 10 Mar 2011 at 18:33

Who'd you buy it from? RMA the Corsair and the cards... simply put. Ain't your fault.

kalvindeane · 10 Mar 2011 at 18:38

Bought the H50 from another site July 2010, obviously can't link it here. Their website is orange. Bought the 2 5770's from ocuk around a year ago now

kalvindeane · 10 Mar 2011 at 19:26

If Corsair don't reply again I shall slap them in the mouth. With a fish.

cjgardens · 10 Mar 2011 at 21:13

kalvindeane said:
If Corsair don't reply again I shall slap them in the mouth. With a fish.

lol

ive had it happen twice to 1 card. and it was some yello water all over it. just clean it and it will be fine. you will not got a performance drop from it.

it will either work or not work.

maybe tht game is not good for xfire.

update drivers update the game see what happens.

sli is crap for some games

olivier renault · 10 Mar 2011 at 21:35

kalvindeane said:
If Corsair don't reply again I shall slap them in the mouth. With a fish.

Lol a H50 rma, and a Crossfire setup? Could be in for the long haul!

Cleeecooo · 10 Mar 2011 at 21:44

olivier renault said:
Lol a H50 rma, and a SLI setup? Could be for a long haul!

Isn't it x-fire?

kalvindeane · 10 Mar 2011 at 21:45

Rift is the only game I have to try with

3DMarkVantage scores are perfectly normal, 18000 (I'm pretty sure that's normal?)

Just realised - I had to turn my oc on my i7 down, maybe that is what is holding me back

Damn. Would've liked the cards to be borked and to get a refund to buy something better with haha

cammy5477 · 11 Mar 2011 at 10:48

check it with vantage and reference your score with a similiar system..... i would imagine corsair wouldnt use tap water with these coolers...it will be de-ionised liquid so in the event of whats happened to you they dont need to replace components.....

Hagar · 11 Mar 2011 at 11:03

cammy5477 said:
check it with vantage and reference your score with a similiar system..... i would imagine corsair wouldnt use tap water with these coolers...it will be de-ionised liquid so in the event of whats happened to you they dont need to replace components.....

De-ionised water still conducts electricity. However it is unlikely to have caused damage to the cards with a low voltage short across the contacts in the slot or the chips on board.

I would be more concerned as where it is leaking from. Insist on an RMA.

wildman · 11 Mar 2011 at 11:23

kalvindeane said:
If Corsair don't reply again I shall slap them in the mouth. With a fish.

cammy5477 · 11 Mar 2011 at 11:25

nkata said:
De-ionised water still conducts electricity. However it is unlikely to have caused damage to the cards with a low voltage short across the contacts in the slot or the chips on board.

I would be more concerned as where it is leaking from. Insist on an RMA.

it does but no were near as much(i think) i also ment to say non conductive aswell....if the h50 is leaking it needs to go now

cammy5477 · 11 Mar 2011 at 11:31

wildman said:

that guy looks alittle like corsairs yellowbeard apart from his beard isnt yellow

"yellowbeard....a giant with a huge yellowbeard"

raralis · 11 Mar 2011 at 11:40

My 5850 was running for a few hours with water leaking all over it.

Pretty much, the hose was loose on the cpu waterblock and eventually leaked all the water within 5 minutes all over the graphics card.

This happened overnight and the pc was still running in the morning.

After drying both the motherboard & graphics card with a hair drying for a few hours, I tested them. They are both working fine.

Unless you see any dark/burnt spots on your graphics cards, they should be fine. Test each individually to rule out any xfire issues.

Get your H50 replaced.
Rara

kalvindeane · 11 Mar 2011 at 16:16

I've tested the cards they seem fine (though one of them has a few blue areas

). No word from Corsair yet, they're support page says a reply will be made within 24hours. Hope so!