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Just Fried My $549 card

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OCGuy

Lifer
It was $600 at one point if you include tax and shipping :/


Long story short....was playing around with my rig and left the side off of the case....then knocked over my beer tonight and a couple drops landed on the 7970. 🙁

On the bright side I have a legitimate excuse to tell my lady for going out and blowing $600 on another card, but is anything on this salvageable?

It was literally two drops on the underside of the card. The whole comp didnt short, it was just a brown screen. Luckily I hadnt sold one of my old 5850s so I swapped them out....


Moral of the story: Drinking and gaming don't mix. And leave your damn case together.
 
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That sucks bt I wreck shit all the time. No biggie. One time I sold a motorcycle put $2000 cash on seat and driving down 91 hwy in my 59 vette and money blew out. Oh well. Shit happens.
 
OCGuy said:
It was $600 at one point if you include tax and shipping :/


Long story short....was playing around with my rig and left the side off of the case....then knocked over my beer tonight and a couple drops landed on the 7970. 🙁

On the bright side I have a legitimate excuse to tell my lady for going out and blowing $600 on another card, but is anything on this salvageable?

It was literally two drops on the underside of the card. The whole comp didnt short, it was just a brown screen. Luckily I hadnt sold one of my old 5850s so I swapped them out....


Moral of the story: Drinking and gaming don't mix. And leave your damn case together.
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Actually the only thing u lost is two drops of beer😎 Sorry for the loss man,next time grab a straw while drinking beer 🙂.What are u planning to get anyway?
 
My condolences.🙁

If the card really is dead then there's nothing you can really salvage. The HSF would still be in working condition, but unless this is a custom card with a unique HSF then it has no value separated from the card.
 
So sad. Such a nice card, and so young too.

And had you known it would be going out so soon and in such a fashion, imagine all the guilt-free, completely irresponsible hard voltmodding you could of done.

Oh well. Just consider that life is a valley of woe filled with pain, misery, hunger and despair.
 
I feel bad for you, OP.

If it makes you feel any better my wife spilled miso soup onto my motherboard about a month ago. I was tinkering inside my case and she walked by with the soup and it slipped. 🙁

So my Phenom II X4 setup died.
 
I had something similar happen to my 4890 but instead of beer it was a wire clip that dropped from CPU heatsink. I RMAed it and two weeks later the same card came in working condition. So unless you want to be anally "fair" you will probably receive a replacement or have it repaired.
 
Just admit it, you deliberately spilt your beer on the card to get a 680gtx instead.
How else could you have rationalized the purchase?😛
 
I ruined a PC once being clumsy - knocked over a glass of ice water on my desk and it poured right into the top fan hole and fried the motherboard.
 
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