Fried GPU

[Sub97]

Hi guys, i've had my PC crashing today and decided to run a benchmark to see what the problem was. The benchmark indicated a GPU problem so i decided to open the GPU and inspect if anything happened and noticed a burned mark on the heat sink and a burned  theremal paste dot on the chip that could not be removed. I've cleaned as much as i could, repasted the thing and turned the PC on again.

The PC still works but only for basic stuff like using discord, watching youtube, etc. It can not run any games without dropping frames and image tears.

 

The question is: Can anythin be done to repair the GPU (either by me or by someone more capable) to repair it?

 

 

[Shimejii]

Seems more like a RIP GPU. When the core burns a hole like that, its pretty much a core die that needs replaced and thats not gonna be cheap, unless its an EVGA card and then they could probably replace it but its out of warranty so.

[OhYou_]

you have to try harder to clean it. 

it is getting too hot there 

[YoungBlade]

I've never seen anything like that before.

 

My best guess at what happened is that the tiny nick on the heatpipe was just large enough that it allowed an air bubble to form rather than being filled in by paste, and that exact spot on the GPU die happened to be somewhere that was a hotspot, but also didn't have a temperature sensor near enough to it to make the GPU throttle. Basically, I think you were the victim of a perfect storm of bad luck.

 

As for what to do, unless you just recently bought this RTX 2060 Super and can RMA it, I think you might be out of luck.

 

You could try downclocking the GPU to see if you can improve stability at the cost of framerate. Maybe at a lower clockspeed you'll be able to find an island of stability where the issues stop.

[spunk.funk]

You are not going to be able to "Fix" this, this needs to be replaced

[Sub97]

Thank you for the answers, i've already put together another build, was just wondering if thins one can be saved and maybe be given to my girlfriend or my brother, i'll see if there's a recicling prgram for GPUS, maybe i can get something out of this unfortunate event