so i wanna talk about a a problem that i had and maybe discuss a solution for it.
me and my two house mates are pc gamers and former smokers we decided to switch to vaping since its less harmful than cigarettes.
after 3 months one of my friends tells me his screen is not detecting anything when he turns his pc on at first i thought it was a RAM issue since hes been using them for 4 years or so but after opening the case i found out that his GPU is dead (amd r9 280x).
i did not what caused this, i checked his electricity outlet his PSU everything seemed fine but for a gpu to suddenly die there has to be something so i suspected that the humidity from the vapor was the issue but i couldn't prove it so we forgot all about that.
2 months later my other friend has the same issue but this time i opened his case to find some moist on his GPU i looked around some more and found oil/moist on all his fans i figured the moist stacked on the top fan to finally drop on the gpu causing the issue ( i found moist on the gpu directly under the top fan).
so two gpus dead and i had just purchased a 1080 ti last month i just ran to my PC shut it down
carefully opened the case to find that i had the same exact problem the only thing that saved my GPU was that it had a back plate which had some moist on it. also all my fans had some moist as well.
so now what is the solution for this problem?? its hard to stop vaping when im using my PC i have been smoking for years while using my pc so this is a deal breaker for me and i do not want to go back to smoking.
so does anyone have any idea to prevent this from happening in the future??
also to those vaping near their PCs go and check before u get a dead gpu or possibly something worse.
me and my two house mates are pc gamers and former smokers we decided to switch to vaping since its less harmful than cigarettes.
after 3 months one of my friends tells me his screen is not detecting anything when he turns his pc on at first i thought it was a RAM issue since hes been using them for 4 years or so but after opening the case i found out that his GPU is dead (amd r9 280x).
i did not what caused this, i checked his electricity outlet his PSU everything seemed fine but for a gpu to suddenly die there has to be something so i suspected that the humidity from the vapor was the issue but i couldn't prove it so we forgot all about that.
2 months later my other friend has the same issue but this time i opened his case to find some moist on his GPU i looked around some more and found oil/moist on all his fans i figured the moist stacked on the top fan to finally drop on the gpu causing the issue ( i found moist on the gpu directly under the top fan).
so two gpus dead and i had just purchased a 1080 ti last month i just ran to my PC shut it down
carefully opened the case to find that i had the same exact problem the only thing that saved my GPU was that it had a back plate which had some moist on it. also all my fans had some moist as well.
so now what is the solution for this problem?? its hard to stop vaping when im using my PC i have been smoking for years while using my pc so this is a deal breaker for me and i do not want to go back to smoking.
so does anyone have any idea to prevent this from happening in the future??
also to those vaping near their PCs go and check before u get a dead gpu or possibly something worse.