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guessing this is dead?

Snookums

Snookums

Snookums

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So long story short, one of my acrylic tubes had a crack, slowly leaked onto my card and i didn't notice. booted the PC to a crackle, spark, small flicker of fire and a smoke. Pics below after a quick clean up;

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EDIT: please someone remind me the shortcut to add to an imgur URL to re-size it.

Now as amazing as EVGA are I very much doubt they will accept this under RMA do to it being water damaged. So how bad is the damage? fixable? Still usable?

Will be dismantling my pc this week sometime cleaning it up and will access to see if there is any further damage.

Has made for the one pretty crap sunday.

Card is an EVGA 980ti SC
 
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Might be worth trying to remove that melted part and seeing if it looks like its just surface dmg or if its melted through the PCB into other layers, if its just on the surface and it cleans up ok and theres still some pads under there then maybe you can find a replacement part (assuming Q501 is the same as Q502 sumone else with SC might be able to confirm that for ya) and solder it on just to see if the card survived, i probably wouldnt fancy testing it in a decent PC like yours though, maybe in a old system?

It might just be time to start looking at the black friday deals :(
 
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That melted part is the guts of that IC having spewed out. it's toast.

You'd need to take it to somewhere that does proper board level repairs to see if it's repairable and they won't know until they replace that IC. Might be fine, might be a brick.

UPGRADE TIME!
 
I thought as much it was dead.

Unfortunately it is not upgrade. Student budget means I will likely have to splash on something terrible to keep me going till I can muster the funds.

Although someone in Gd highlighted I could claim on contents insurance so fingers crossed it works there.

Also I’ve been out of the PC game really bad not paid any attention. What GPU from today’s line up would my card compare to not entirely sure how contents insurance works and with the 980to being EoL I can only presume it will be replaced by a 10 series if they don’t go second hand.
 
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How can you be sure the water damaged it ? ;) . If it were me i would clean it up , put the stock cooler back on it and Rma the card and let the techs make up their minds. Don't get me wrong, i'm not suggesting that you lie, just omit some of the facts.
 
If it's still under warranty you could always clean off the dried fluid using isopropyl alcohol (I think that's the type that evaporates afterwards?) then return it to the manufacturer and play dumb as to how it died :P
 
Cause EVGA had always been amazing to me in the past and this card was even a free RmA upgrade from a 780ti.

They aren’t stupid.

They have people on this forum.
 
Your card will perform about the same as a 1070 so if your insurance offers an equivalent replacement they should be offering one of them. If they base it on its current value then your probably looking more at a 1060. I hope they offer ya the former rather than the latter.
 
Surely the can’t offer me the latter as it’s not equal. Value aside surely it has to be replaced with equal quality.

I also always thought the 980ti was more powerful than the 1070.
 
they should make fluid that does not conduct, not impossible as distilled water conducts far less than non distilled water.
 
w1ze1 said:
they should make fluid that does not conduct, not impossible as distilled water conducts far less than non distilled water.
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Distilled water doesn't conduct, but over time the water will get polluted with conductive particles from the environment it's in and then starts conducting. So yeah, not a permanent fix, and a tricky problem to solve.
 
The loop was only a few weeks old and had de ionised water and Mayhems concentrate (pink) in it would have thought it wouldn’t be that conductive but oh well.
 
Oh dear unfortunately EVGA will not accept water damaged graphics cards and will refused RMA.

You made a mistake bought Mayhems Concentrate Pink, you should had bought revolutionary Thermaltake C1000 Opaque Coolant Purple that are anti-corrosive solution from somewhere as OCUK don't have purple in stock so it would not damage your EVGA 980 Ti SC when it leaked then you would need to shutdown PC, cleaned it all up and start up PC again like Hardware Unboxed did was amazing and people who owned custom water coolers would never worried about corrosive and conductive again.


Thermaltake have C1000 Opaque Coolant colours blue, purple, clear, black, red, orange, yellow and green but no pink so close colour you would go for purple. You could ask Termaltake to make C1000 Opaque Coolant Pink.

http://www.thermaltake.com/Liquid_C...002795/C1000_Opaque_Coolant_Purple/design.htm
 
pete910 said:
Who's told you that ? Of cause it conducts. Admittedly not as much as piped but It's still water!
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lolwut? (conductivity is very low for distilled water and even lower for deionized water, but that changes quite quickly).

Clean the card and replace any broken parts. Could still be fine. Lots of great soldering tutorials on youtube.
 
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It’s fine. They other half contacted the insurance company today (its technically her pc) a techy of theirs will phone in the next 24-48 hours.

Mistakes have been made. Lessons learnt. Will be resting my water cooling gear up tho as now I’m back to being a student I don’t need the extra expense.
 
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