Possible GPU Waterdamage

[JasonStrafes]

Hey people!

I spilled some water on the GPU back plate when I was doing my custom water cooling loop maintenance. Some of the water got on the PCB but i dried it off fairly quickly.

My PC is running just fine but the fan curve is a bit messed up and my game glitched out once. Is there something that I should be doing to minimize the damage?

[Stahlmann]

If you get water onto your components, i'd use a hairdryer to dry it off and then let the pc sit for the next 24 hours without being plugged into power so it can completely dry out. I'd say keep an eye out if the problems with the game glitching out persist or if it was a one time only thing.

[JasonStrafes]

12 hours ago, Stahlmann said:

If you get water onto your components, i'd use a hairdryer to dry it off and then let the pc sit for the next 24 hours without being plugged into power so it can completely dry out. I'd say keep an eye out if the problems with the game glitching out persist or if it was a one time only thing.

Thanks for the advice.

An update to this:

I cleaned the PCB of the graphics card with isopropyl alcohol to get rid of the possible corrosion. I can launch my PC just fine but my GPU is overheating very badly. Its 60 degrees at idle and it goes up to 90+ degrees while gaming and it thermal throttles.

Any advice on how I can fix this? I made sure the cooler is installed properly

[Stahlmann]

9 hours ago, JasonStrafes said:

Thanks for the advice.

An update to this:

I cleaned the PCB of the graphics card with isopropyl alcohol to get rid of the possible corrosion. I can launch my PC just fine but my GPU is overheating very badly. Its 60 degrees at idle and it goes up to 90+ degrees while gaming and it thermal throttles.

Any advice on how I can fix this? I made sure the cooler is installed properly

When the cooler mount is not the issue i can't say what is. Did you apply new thermal paste yet?

[Blue4130]

22 hours ago, JasonStrafes said:

Hey people!

I spilled some water on the GPU back plate when I was doing my custom water cooling loop maintenance. Some of the water got on the PCB but i dried it off fairly quickly.

My PC is running just fine but the fan curve is a bit messed up and my game glitched out once. Is there something that I should be doing to minimize the damage?

You say it was when you were doing maintenance, I will assume it was working properly before? I highly doubt it was the water. It's way more likely that something isn't aligned properly. You say it's installed correctly, I don't doubt this, but 9 out of ten times in cases like this, taking it apart and remounting will fix whatever was misaligned. That would be my first step.