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Washing a GTX 750 TI FTW !!!?

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I was wondering if I made a boo boo , 
I a few years ago had a issue with this card would artifact on windows 7 desktop boot when the driver was installed but without it, it ran fine for a while. 
I RMA'ed it EVGA told me it had water damage on the back plate and wasn't under warranty.
Thought I had a bricked card for 6 months , Got a stupid crazy idea .
Took it apart heat sink and fans off the board , washed it with dawn soap and hot water , used a blow dryer to heat it up like super hot hot enough to evaporate all the remaining water droplets.
I used a needle to carefully remove any corrosion . waited 24 hours to be sure that all the water was gone , put it back together and by some grace of god it worked , Im using it now .


The question is could this adversely effect the rest of my computer 

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no. As long as you didn't wash the die or the PCB, and the heatsink and fans were 100% dry you should be fine. 

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17 minutes ago, Raurath said:

I was wondering if I made a boo boo , 
I a few years ago had a issue with this card would artifact on windows 7 desktop boot when the driver was installed but without it, it ran fine for a while. 
I RMA'ed it EVGA told me it had water damage on the back plate and wasn't under warranty.
Thought I had a bricked card for 6 months , Got a stupid crazy idea .
Took it apart heat sink and fans off the board , washed it with dawn soap and hot water , used a blow dryer to heat it up like super hot hot enough to evaporate all the remaining water droplets.
I used a needle to carefully remove any corrosion . waited 24 hours to be sure that all the water was gone , put it back together and by some grace of god it worked , Im using it now .


The question is could this adversely effect the rest of my computer 

No....no boo boo made.

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Well, what could go wrong if the GPU itself worked?

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Just now, mrzoltowski said:

Yikes! You were lucky there. Next time please use Isopropyl alcohol !! It's the only safe way to clean electronics.

Yeah I felt lucky, It was going to be bricked either way i looked at it and I didnt have any alcohol on hand at the time i had the idea .

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