Soldato
Have you tried switching it on without the graphics card? It's unlikely to do further damage if you try it without changing anything else.
Help! GFX just went bang! Found green liquid on mobo...
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Please update this thread with how you get on, will be interesting to know Silverstone response
It happens because marketing doesn't tell everything.
While heatpipes are basically going to operate (unless physically broken) longer than it takes for you to end up as worm food, waterpipe coolers have weaknesses/failure points from complexity.
Could have been some sealing o-ring hardening and giving up.
Or galvanic corrosion eating one part to let coolant leak past it...
Once corrosion inhibitors lose their effectiveness aluminium and copper are risk of galvanic corrosion.
https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/5680/silverstone-tundra-td02-aio-cpu-cooler-review/index2.html
While nickel is close to copper, if coating isn't strong enough it could fail etc.
And in worst situations even small anodic index difference is enough to start galvanic corrosion.
Galvanic corrosion is major problem in lots of industrial structures, needing regular maintenance and replacing of parts, or very specific preventive precautions.
(especially ships, double so in salty ocean water)
Here's more about it in water cooling.
https://martinsliquidlab.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/corrosion-explored/comment-page-1/
As for that graphics card, those burnt contacts are for 12V:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#Pinout
So there was clearly major short circuit.
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Id just go the house insurance way i doubt u will get any where with aio manufacture but hey they could be feeling generous
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*UPDATE*
Just in case anyone is interested - @Hotwired was right - The TD02 comes with a 5 years warranty that covers any additional components that die as a result of a fault. I got in touch with SilverStone, who checked the pics and then sent me a prepaid label and asked me to send the TD02, my GFX card and my mobo off to them in Germany. Sent it out 3pm on Friday from the UK, and had an email today (Monday) to confirm they had received it and were going to issue me a refund for all three components! RESULT! Thanks again for all of your help!
Now just to figure out what the current equivalent of my deceased 970 is.... Any suggestions?
Just in case anyone is interested - @Hotwired was right - The TD02 comes with a 5 years warranty that covers any additional components that die as a result of a fault. I got in touch with SilverStone, who checked the pics and then sent me a prepaid label and asked me to send the TD02, my GFX card and my mobo off to them in Germany. Sent it out 3pm on Friday from the UK, and had an email today (Monday) to confirm they had received it and were going to issue me a refund for all three components! RESULT! Thanks again for all of your help!
Now just to figure out what the current equivalent of my deceased 970 is.... Any suggestions?
RESULT
As for the card... just happens to be a random review up looking at older cards in 2019
https://www.techspot.com/review/1822-geforce-gtx-970-vs-radeon-r9-290/
Did you get cash or some kind of credit or what.
What you want to replace it with depends on your budget. The best value card is the 570 4GB for £120 (at ocuk) which is about 970 performance give or take a bit depending on game.
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sounds like he got cash
he's already started a new thread asking for advice
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/replacing-a-dead-gtx-970.18860611/
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Given the excellent response from SilverStone, I will have to consider them in future builds.
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Yes that's a result, very quick and definitely a better response than you get from some of the usual suspects.
That's great! I can't imagine Asus doing the same if one of their AIOs were responsible for similar damage.
Nice. Seeing the hassle some have gone through with other brands in even more clear cut cases than this that is a decent result unfortunate as it is it happened in the first place. Sadly though I suspect people will abuse it in future to get free upgrades 
nice one, I had the same with a corsair cooler a couple of years back, pretty much killed everything but the 2600k cpu, had to send it all to corsair, and they gave me the money for it, dont think it was for the full price I bought it for though, so cudos to silverstone
Soldato
Happy days. Upgrade time