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Update: So I took out the graphics card, lifted the heatsink, removed the thermal paste with the same rubbing alcohol and re-applied thermal paste and reseated the heatsink, and now my freezing issues seem to be a lot less frequent, however, it still has happened once. Normally I could bring it...

That's what I was thinking.. because the rubbing alcohol removed quite a bit of dust so maybe it migrated the dust too close to the component parts

I thought it was dry because as people say 99% rubbing alcohol evaporates almost instantly but now I'm not so sure.. how could it short stuff out if it evaporates instantly? The temperatures were fine but I haven't checked under load. I'll do that. I'm thinking I may have dissolved some of the...

So I tried cleaning my computer with a can of compressed 99% electronics grade rubbing alcohol. Now after cleaning, the computer is having weird issues. At first, the computer wouldn't turn on. Power is sent to the headphones noticeable by the headphone LED. Then hours later it turned on, but...

I have RX 480 8GB by XFX, it has served me well for a couple of years. A few days ago it shut down, screen froze up and each restart of the computer it froze at a sooner interval, until I decided to take it out and see what the problem was. I unseated the heatsink, took the graphics card apart...