Spilt water on my GPU, any ideas??

[_Nessquick_]

So just tonight i had a glass of non-carbonated lemonade spilt onto my pc case, i quickly shut everything off and unplugged it all, cleaning everything with paper towels and cloths. Nothing inside the pc really got that wet apart from part of the PSU housing and top of the GPU (not around the edges or inside, literally just on the very top where no electrical signal is actually transferred), some was on top of my AIO cooler for my CPU but as the holes in the top of my case are small they did not really let much through.

Problem is: Whenever i play games, they benchmark and run fine for like 5 minutes then they begin to get really stuttery and drop to about 20-45fps (144 - 200 avg), i had HWmonitor and afterburner open, showing clock speeds and thermals to be fine (CPU around 65-70Degrees C at peak and GPU at 55-60 C)

I'm going to let it dry overnight to see what happens but if that doesnt work anybody got any extra ideas?

TL:DR spilt water on pc, dried it and now its lagging in-game

P.S 1080 Youtube videos work fine, i stupidly turned it back on rather than let it try for a couple days.

[jaslion]

You really should leave things to dry when they get wet for a couple days. Chances are it's ruined now that you turned it on again.

[Quackers101]

"split water on PC, dried it"

For how long, and how do we know you dried it all? some corrosion is maybe going to happen, acidic and liquid is not the best and with sugar? Send it to a repair shop for a supersonic cleaning Did you hear anything when turning it on when you first did, and when gaming?

Could be a lot of things that can go wrong, so you might have to test or benchmark each part etc.

Power delivery is also good from the PSU?

[_Nessquick_]

9 minutes ago, Quackers101 said:

"split water on PC, dried it"

For how long, and how do we know you dried it all? some corrosion is maybe going to happen, acidic and liquid is not the best and with sugar? Send it to a repair shop for a supersonic cleaning Did you hear anything when turning it on when you first did, and when gaming?

Could be a lot of things that can go wrong, so you might have to test or benchmark each part etc.

Power delivery is also good from the PSU?

power delivery was fine, i just dried it with towels and didnt really leave it like an idiot, no noises though when turning on and it seemed flawless until the gaming experience.
Thanks.

[_Nessquick_]

19 minutes ago, jaslion said:

You really should leave things to dry when they get wet for a couple days. Chances are it's ruined now that you turned it on again.

welp looks like i'm in the market for a new 1660

[Tristerin]

Put it on rice for 24 hours, maybe can save it.

[_Nessquick_]

1 minute ago, Tristerin said:

Put it on rice for 24 hours, maybe can save it.

haha very funny, rice has never worked for anything for me in the past so im good thanks

[Tristerin]

9 minutes ago, _Nessquick_ said:

haha very funny, rice has never worked for anything for me in the past so im good thanks

RIP

[minibois]

Water and lemonade are a different sort of story.

With water you want to remove as much of it as possible and then let it dry.

 

Lemonade however has sugar in it. Water dries off, sugar does not and could short out something on the board.

Whenever I encounter anything with liquids spilled on it, my go to is to unplug it and properly clean it. Alcohol + a toothbrush (you won't use in your mouth anymore) is the method I prefer.

[_Nessquick_]

3 minutes ago, minibois said:

Water and lemonade are a different sort of story.

With water you want to remove as much of it as possible and then let it dry.

 

Lemonade however has sugar in it. Water dries off, sugar does not and could short out something on the board.

Whenever I encounter anything with liquids spilled on it, my go to is to unplug it and properly clean it. Alcohol + a toothbrush (you won't use in your mouth anymore) is the method I prefer.

yeah, i'll give this a try, thanks.

[Mark Kaine]

50 minutes ago, _Nessquick_ said:

TL:DR spilt water on pc, dried it and now its lagging in-game

P.S 1080 Youtube videos work fine, i stupidly turned it back on rather than let it try for a couple days.

This'll be very hard to pin point and fix, but yeah you really have to let it dry for a couple of days in a warm and well ventilated place preferably, and also check everything thoroughly... since it was "lemonade" traces should be easily visible... you can clean that off with rubbing alcohol and qtips... 

 

 

And yes, in fact water cannot damage pc parts, at least not directly, as long there's no current flowing (which of course is the problem here) 

 

Idk 50/50 chance it may improve when you let everything dry and clean off any traces you may find... 

[Quackers101]

2 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

And yes, in fact water cannot damage pc parts, at least not directly, as long there's no current flowing (which of course is the problem here)

they can in both, although if removed most of the water and not for long, maybe not as bad. But still can do some damage, although it might be more by time than anything else.