Arkious

Would the 99% isopropyl alcohol clean it exclusively or would I maybe need like a new toothbrush or some paper towels with it to scrub off the old coolant?

My Gamerstorm Genome (first generation) liquid cooling system is leaking and I didn’t notice it because it’s very gradual (1 drop a minute.) I had covered my clear panel because of the light at night. I was playing Minecraft when my monitors lost signal and then I thought I’d plug one into my motherboard HDMI because the sound was still running and I figured it was a graphics card issue. As I moved to the back of my tower I smelled a weird kind of funky chemical smell similar to antifreeze then I opened my side panel and saw that my graphics card had the green liquid from the CPU cooler collected on it and I quickly turned the power supply off and pulled the GPU out (MSI Nvidia GTX 1070 Armour Edition) Im guessing I for sure need to replace the cooler but what do I do to my graphics card? Rinse the funk off with distilled water? Leave it with a bunch of silica packets in a ziplock bag? Clean it with nail polish remover and do all of the above? should I clean the whole graphics cards piece by piece and then reapply the cooling chassis and thermal paste? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. The cpu cooler is dripping into a cup right now as I’m hard pressed to remove it from the case that it’s more or less built into. I’m leaving the system off until i find some solutions and using my phone to ask this right now. thanks so much! -Jonathan P.S. I can provide more photos.

Rig name, Manta Lee One CPU: Intel i5 6600k GPU: MSI Gefore GTX 1070 Armor OC edition Average quality: 10.9 Frames tested: 12385