Hi fellow LTT forum members!
Yesterday a very sad thing happened to me. My one month worth of income RTX 2080 died on my while computer was restarting after windows update. I have a suspect on the killer and I would love to hear if you agree or don't that it is possible. So the basic information: I have a fully water cooled system and almost next to it is my room heater (the temps were always fine, the air inlet was never above 30C I meassured it).
So yesterday, I sat down, turned my computer and my roomheater on at the same time. The heater heats up pretty quickly and the original ambient temp. of my room was 15C. The computer started up properly, but then I met with everyones best friend: Windows update. It did a restart at the end and thats when the crime happened. My fan inlet temp was 26C at this moment. When the system tried to turn back on, I heard a click from my PSU. Then it turned on again, and an other click. It was off for at leadt 10 second both time. When it turned back on the third time, it remained on... and my debug LED on my x570 prime pro stayed on the white led, wich is labeled VGA. Could it be that my water temp was under my fan inlet temp, and condensation killed my graphics card? And if it, can I fix it somehow If I can't see any physical damage? I live in a country where right to repair is not a thing and becouse I disassembled the card, i don't have any warranty on it.