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Burnt graphics Card, possible to fix?

2 days ago, while I was gaming on my pc, it suddenly shut down, something inside my pc emitted a moderate "bang", followed by a bit of smoke and the smell of something burnt. I checked inside my PC but nothing catched my inmediate attention. Upon further inspection, I narrowed down the problem to the graphics card. I took off the backplate of my EVGA GTX 1070 SC and found what is shown on the pic I uploaded. 

 

Other PC components are fine, but my PC now won't boot when the graphics card is installed. My graphics card's warranty has expired unfortunately, and would like to know if this can be fixed in some way. If not, well ill just wait for the new Ampere line of Graphics cards.

 

Not sure if its relevant but my other PC Specs are:

i5 6500 3.2ghz CPU

Msi b150 m3 MOBO

evga 600b Bronze PSU

16gb Kingston 2400mhz RAM

128 gb ssd kingston - 1tb WD Blue - 2tb WD Green - STORAGE

Corsair Carbide 400c CASE

 

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Try to find schematics to see what did explode then start cleaning the board with ipa and start separating the pcb layers again if possible as long as u get rid of any short the gpu might still work if the Component that died wasnt important unlikely but not impossible ^^ 

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id send an email evga's way anyways, sometimes they're feeling extremely generous. cant hurt to try :P 

topics i need help on:

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my "oops i bought intel right before zen 3 releases" build

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 (placeholder)

GPU: Gigabyte 980ti Xtreme (also placeholder), deshroud w/ generic 1200rpm 120mm fans x2, stock bios 130% power, no voltage offset: +70 core +400 mem 

Memory: 2x16gb GSkill Trident Z RGB 3600C16, 14-15-30-288@1.45v

Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix X570-E Gaming

Cooler: Noctua NH-D15S w/ white chromax bling
OS Drive: Samsung PM981 1tb (OEM 970 Evo)

Storage Drive: XPG SX8200 Pro 2tb

Backup Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 4TB

PSU: Seasonic Prime Ultra Titanium 750W w/ black/white Cablemod extensions
Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Dark (to be replaced with a good case shortly)

basically everything was bought used off of reddit or here, only new component was the case. absolutely nutty deals for some of these parts, ill have to tally it all up once it's "done" :D 

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The PCB's literally melted through, which means it's futile looking for repairs anywhere but EVGA (even they may not repair it considering its value and at least the GPU core needs to be desoldered in order to be soldered onto another PCB)

 

Also possible that the GPU itself is dead, and that point you can't repair it at all.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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That looks like a volcano,with that hole there is a chance for repair but it doesn't look good...

Without schematics no one can repair it,your only hope is EVGA,just hope the repair won't cost more than the card's worth...

A PC Enthusiast since 2011
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X@4.65GHz | GIGABYTE GTX 1660 GAMING OC @ Core 2085MHz Memory 5000MHz
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