Can you repair a slightly burnt graphics card? (images included)

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Atif Khan

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Today after a few seconds of booting into windows there was a black screen on my monitor and the power LED started beeping like when you put the PC on standby. I could smell something burning, so I turned the power off.
After that I tried to start the PC but the motherboard light flashes for a second and the PC shuts down.
Turns​ out it's my graphics card causing this. I opened it and saw a small area burnt. It's a Gigabyte Radeon 7770. Could this possibly be repaired?

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Repairing might be interesting as a fun learning experience for yourself. But this is a GPU you can buy used for under $50; a shop that's going to do anything about this will charge you more than that just for the attempt to replace it.

What *is* your PSU? This is extremely important information and frying GPUs is something junk PSUs tend to do.
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SinxarKnights

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My main concern is you would be fixing the effect without finding the actual cause. Since you said it was during boot, I would suspect the PSU fried it. If that is the case, you have bigger problems than a fried 7770.

Come to think of it I recall someone else posted a 7xxx series card that got fried in a very similar manner quite recently. While sure it is only two cards that showed up, that is quite the coincidence.
 
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Atif Khan

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It's been almost a month since I updated the drivers. Can't remember the version but I was running the beta drivers.

I tried reinserting the graphics card and the moment I press the power button there is a spark at the area of the burn and right after that the PC shuts down.
 
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If you got the skills to fix it and have the parts handy, can't hurt to try it. If you take it to somewhere that can repair it, it will likely be significantly more expensive than buying something new.

You can get a used R9 280 for fairly cheap (I sold mine last week for $80 on eBay - if you go this route make sure to get the 3GB model), that is a rebranded 7950. Assuming money is an issue. Otherwise something like a GTX 1060 would give much better performance, assuming you have a decent CPU.
 
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Repairing might be interesting as a fun learning experience for yourself. But this is a GPU you can buy used for under $50; a shop that's going to do anything about this will charge you more than that just for the attempt to replace it.

What *is* your PSU? This is extremely important information and frying GPUs is something junk PSUs tend to do.
 
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