Spilled Tea on GPU and now its getting hot

[FarikoNightwing]

I spilled tea on my 2070 super as the title says I shut everything off and dried it but still have some cleaning left to do. I plugged it in the lights all worked and the fans were spinning but my main concern was how hot it was getting I touched it and it was probably hitting around the 100's. Is this a problem i can solve with more cleaning or should i take it to a shop.

[WoodenMarker]

Are you looking at temps with software like Msi Afterburner?

Your hand is not a good tool for measuring temperatures. It doesn't take very high temps for metal to be too hot to touch. 

[Dedayog]

16 minutes ago, FarikoNightwing said:

I spilled tea on my 2070 super as the title says I shut everything off and dried it but still have some cleaning left to do. I plugged it in the lights all worked and the fans were spinning but my main concern was how hot it was getting I touched it and it was probably hitting around the 100's. Is this a problem i can solve with more cleaning or should i take it to a shop.

You should probably leave your 2070 alone, and stop using it as a coaster.

 

If you can touch it, it's fine.  100c will cause burns, FYI.

[LauriHimself]

36 minutes ago, FarikoNightwing said:

I touched it and it was probably hitting around the 100's

unless we are talking fahrenheit here i highly doubt that =P

the backplate of my 2070 gets "toasty" aswell, to the point it's uncomfortable to the touch, but thats far from 100C.

use something like hardeware-monitor, gpu-z or aida64 to get some real readings from your card.

[Euchre]

When you say 'tea', do you mean unsweetened tea, sweet tea, hot, or cold? Believe it or not, this all matters. Sugar makes things a lot worse. If it was hot tea with milk or cream and sugar, you're even worse off. Any tea has tannic acid in it - well, that's basically what tea is - and that can cause a slight corrosion shortly after contact. Besides being conductive (due to the high water content), that can cause issues with fine solder leads like you'll find attaching chips to boards. Sugar leaves a nasty coating, and will cause heat issues, as well as helping to attract and retain moisture. Milk or cream would leave fats and particulate crud behind, adding to heat insulation, as the sugar does too.

 

Generally, if you get a sugary liquid on your electronics, you need to remove power right away, if possible, and if it doesn't immediately short itself out anyway. If no immediately evident damage or failure happened, you need to disassemble the device (still turned off and removed from any power source, of course) and clean it thoroughly and completely before attempting to reassemble and power back up. Use distilled water on a very damp paper towel or microfiber cloth to wash away the sugary residue. Clean, distilled water is surprisingly safe for cleaning electronics, so long as you aren't leaving it in a bath of the stuff or while it has any power available. If you are concerned about getting it dry enough, chase with alcohol, like 90% isopropyl, and use gentle warming to help evaporate it quickly. Do not use a full power heat gun, or hair dryer - the latter being a good way to both melt and static charge your electronics. Your other friend in being sure the electronics are dry after cleaning is time, so you can leave your parts out overnight to dry.

 

Even if you seem to have cleaned everything and avoided initial or subsequent damage, once you've exposed an electronic component to substantial moisture, especially other than pure water, you can never really trust it again. Any 'mission critical' tasks should not be considered reliable on such electronics. If you don't mind your game being interrupted by your GPU suddenly smoking itself, and possibly taking other components of your system with it, then don't worry too much. However, if that system is your main or only system, and your important schoolwork or banking info is on it, plan on getting a new GPU sooner than later. If the system has onboard graphics, you'd be better to pull the card and go back to that, if the system is a critical machine.

[Bananasplit_00]

your hand is very bad at telling exact temperatures. 100C should have left your finger with a burn

[Syaoran]

If you can get video out of it, it's fine. You're lucky you didn't fried your whole system, even luckier you didn't start a fire.

 

Use a sippy cup next time   

 

 

^{just joking}

[FarikoNightwing]

So if I clean it like Euchre said would it still run like normal or is it going to kill itself after some time. 

[Constantin]

How on earth did you do that, the gpu isn't inside the case???

[FarikoNightwing]

it landed on top of my case and dripped down

[WoodenMarker]

8 minutes ago, FarikoNightwing said:

So if I clean it like Euchre said would it still run like normal or is it going to kill itself after some time. 

It's hard to tell what has been damaged if anything at all but it's best practice to clean the card as well as possible. 

 

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[Dedayog]

6 hours ago, FarikoNightwing said:

it landed on top of my case and dripped down

So many people put their cases on the floor next to their desks.  Put it under or on top.

 

Think about these things.

[Xkillerpn]

Ok, so clean all well, then repaste the gpu. Some tea probably got there.