gtx970 Burnt Gtx 970 - help needed

[rock140]

So I had a Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ITX case which was notoriously bad for airflow with the inno3d gtx 970 in it. Temps were near max but nothing was thermal throttling if I took the front panel off. However, the nosie from the fans were extremely loud and distracting when I gamed. So, I ordered the NZXT Kraken G12 along with the Corsair H55 and Noctua A9x14 to cool it the 970. I know it was my fault that I didn't check thorougly if the G12 supported non-reference cards, but I still managed to ghetto mount the AIO. Temps on the GPU chip was fine but since this was not an EVGA icx card, I could not monitor the VRM/ Vram temps. Low demanding games would run fine but whenever I ran a more demanding game such as Divinity Original Sin 2, the gpu would shut down and I had to hard restart the computer. I later found out that if the power limit went above 50%, it would do that, so I again ghetto mounted the noctua fan onto the G12 bracket. 

 

I thought everything would be fine and dandy since I installed the mid plate back on the card with new thermal pads along with active airflow with the noctua fan, but while gaming, the computer shut off by itself again and would not reboot. I also smelled smoke coming from the GPU so I assumed the card was burnt. I attached some pictures showing the bare PCB of the card and I suspect that the R75/ R76 thingys are burnt since they show burnt marks on the thermal pad. 

 

Does anyone know what those chips are and if they're fixable? I'm currently leaning more towards getting a new card and if I do, any recommendations?

[bellabichon]

Sorry, my dude, but I think you're pretty far past fixable. GPUs are super complicated, by nature, so unless you have very good soldering skills, in the words of Sans, "You're gonna have a bad time."

[mopman94]

What? If the airflow in the case was the issue why didn't you spend the money you spend on those coolers on a better case?

[Raudi_]

It popped, should of just redone thermal paste before improperly mounting a g10 on it. Also your case airflow is probably is a part to play in your temps being so high in the first place.

[rock140]

10 minutes ago, bellabichon said:

Sorry, my dude, but I think you're pretty far past fixable. GPUs are super complicated, by nature, so unless you have very good soldering skills, in the words of Sans, "You're gonna have a bad time."

Yeah, I figured as much. I was actually thinking of shipping it to the Rossman Repair Group guy whom I quite enjoy watching to see if he could do anything about it. Would seem like a cool video.

[rock140]

8 minutes ago, mopman94 said:

What? If the airflow in the case was the issue why didn't you spend the money you spend on those coolers on a better case?

I thought about it, specifically switching it with the loque ghost s1 or dan case a4 since I was going for an ultra compact PC in the beginning. But I valued silence more and wanted to tackle the GPU fan noise problem first and fix the airflow along the way. Hence why I thought an AIO would be the perfect solution, but I didn't factor in my card into consideration.

[rock140]

10 minutes ago, KingCry said:

It popped, should of just redone thermal paste before improperly mounting a g10 on it. Also your case airflow is probably is a part to play in your temps being so high in the first place.

When I mentioned the thermal pads, I meant that I applied new ones to the VRMs and VRAMs, not the chip itself. I wouldn't be that dumb to put thermal pad on gpu core itself. And yeah, should've definitely researched more about the case before making a purchase last year.