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March 19th, 2019 at 12:11 AM
There's nothing you could have done :p
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March 19th, 2019 at 10:42 PM
I actually do, depending on if the gpu chip underneath the heatsink is fried or not, it's likely you blew a capacitor or two, which is an easy fix with a soldering iron, and up to $10 in parts depending.
I recently recapped a video card with busted caps myself
so basically, take the card out, give it a good once over from the surface, remove the heatsink to look at the gpu and check for damage (might as well put new thermal compound on while you're at it, Arctic silver has been known to improve video card life by replacing manufacturer stuff with it.
just be careful, and if you have to do any surface mount stuff, be patient, do them one at time, and ideally, if you can get a hot air gun and liquid solder/flux mix it makes things a lot easier for that stuff.
it's time consuming but worth it... and way cheaper than buying a new video card.
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March 22nd, 2019 at 4:45 PM
I still think it's salvageable.
smoke is usually blown caps, and video card's especially have all sorts of redundant circuits and components to prevent the chip it's self from suffering damage before the less expensive components.
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