I was furiously coding away at some PBR testing, when my machine crashed, upon reboot, hardware fault in my GTX 470 =(
Pulled it out of the case, stripped it bare, cleaned it, 10 mins in the oven at 198 to reflow the solder… enough to drag the old girl back to life, woo hoo … but for how long ???
At least it died of natural causes. I wrecked an old nvidia laptop card when I got excited during a game and knocked a beer over onto my laptop. Alcohol and graphics card don’t mix.
And one must be careful when licking the alcohol off, those components might be hot still and may render tongue unusable. If it was good alcohol, it’ll totally cover the taste of other stuff flushed from the surface area.