ASUS GTX 560 Erosion on small square

ldewitt

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I was installing a dvr card in my machine, anyways i pulled my graphics card out to move it up to my top pci x16 slot i thought damn that's still clean like when i pulled it out of the box 10 months ago, well looking over it more closely and noticed one of the little square(some kind of compositor or something since there all over the place) is corroded pretty bad. Weird thing is.....I been playing CS:GO and just got BF4 rocking it at 70fps no issues what so ever and probably never would have noticed it unless i took it out. Here is an example of what i'm talking about but is NOT my card:
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One of those squares is corroded pretty bad and also 2 little pins by that square kinda like the other thing I've circled in this photo. I have pictures of my graphics card at home but not here at work. I can post back with pictures later. It's almost like there was something spilled in it but my case is never opened nor is it in a place that liquid is anywhere near it, and i've inspecting my motherboard and pci-e slot it was in for any signs of other things and nope clean as when i opened it. I do have a closed loop liquid cooler(antec kuhler 920) and that seems just fine also; and from where the graphics card sits even if i did spring a leak it would be on the back side of the card not on the front under the heatsinks