I found this 9600 gt in my barn , how do i clean it ?

[REC Monika]

This badboy was chillin in a random bucket when i was taking out laundary (i live on the countryside in Poland) , i want to run (or at least walk) crisis on it 

[Spotty]

1. Find a clean area to work
2. Get a bucket of warm soapy water
3. Go to ebay and buy another card
4. Throw that mangled wreck in the trash

 

Really not much point trying to salvage that. But if you really want to then take the cooler off and wash the whole thing in warm soapy water with a soft brush. Let it dry thoroughly before repasting the cooler.

[Beerzerker]

18 minutes ago, Spotty said:

1. Find a clean area to work
2. Get a bucket of warm soapy water
3. Go to ebay and buy another card
4. Throw that mangled wreck in the trash

 

Really not much point trying to salvage that. But if you really want to then take the cooler off and wash the whole thing in warm soapy water with a soft brush. Let it dry thoroughly before repasting the cooler.

I'd do it just to see if it can be done.

The cooler itself is trashed as is due to the damage the fins have taken. If they can be straightened out again AND if the majority of them are still there it may be useable - And that's only IF, after all that the cooling fan itself still works.
Either replace the cooler period or remove it to repair/straighten the cooling fins and motor, reTIM and then reinstall the cooler. 

Yes, cleanup ATM is the biggest step to take to start off with.
Soap and water with a soft brush is a good start and may take some doing, maybe not.
Clean it off and be sure the card's gold fingers on the bottom are still in good shape and clean too, be careful when cleaning those.

After a good wash and rinse, allow it to dy and them move on to the DVI headers.
I can promise you the contact pins inside are dirty and tarnished so you'll have to get those taken care of for it to send a signal out to a monitor and it's the same thing for the power plug pins too for getting any power to the card it needs.
Electrical contact cleaner, if available to you can help with some of this kind of work.

Let it dry for a couple of days minimum and try it in a spare/testing/machine you don't care about because of the card really is FUBAR, the machine it's tested in could be too when the power button is pressed.

[TetraSky]

Put the card in an ultrasonic cleaner with distilled water in it. Let it run a few minutes, rinse to remove the biggest junk, repeat and let it run longer. If there's corrosion, you need to use a cleaning solution along with it. Like Branson electronic cleaner. 97% water, 3% cleaning fluid. Don't put alcohol in an ultrasonic cleaner.

[Needfuldoer]

If this is just for laughs... You'll need some dish detergent and distilled water.

 

Clean off as much of the loose dirt as you can dry, using a paintbrush or something like that.

 

Take the fan off the heatsink, and the heatsink off the card. Clean all the old thermal paste off using alcohol.

 

Make up a bucket of warm soapy water, and then scrub the board with an old toothbrush. 

 

Once you have the board visually clean, rinse thoroughly with distilled water.

 

If you have the rubbing alcohol to spare, rinse the board a second time with that.

 

Shake as much liquid off the board as you can, then leave it hanging somewhere to dry for at least a couple days.

 

After you've cleaned the board, clean the heatsink. Cleaning the fan by immersing it in water is a bad idea unless it's completely seized.

 

Make sure you test the board in a computer you don't care about, where it doesn't matter if it gets destroyed.

[PDifolco]

IMHO the effort to make that old dirty crap work (if it does) will cost more than buying some more recent low end GPU...