NVIDIA RTX 3070 GPU struck by lightning looks dead and buried - but the graphics card is somehow repaired to game another day

If your graphics card was somehow struck by lightning, would you expect it to survive? Probably not, but this happened to an NVIDIA RTX 3070 (in an indirect way), and the GPU was somehow repaired to a usable state.

VideoCardz noticed this tale from repair expert Brother Zhang, who has performed miraculous repairs on graphics cards in the past.

At the start of the above YouTube video, you can see the PC in which the RTX 3070 was installed, in its post-lightning strike state, with the inside of the computer essentially a melted mess (including the figurine decorations therein).

Apparently the PC was one of a collection in a photo studio, and the whole set of computers - and other hardware, including a router - were burned due to a faulty setup of the building's lightning protection system (with the ground wire positioned too close to it).

When lightning struck, seemingly that poor design had catastrophic results as you can see in the video clip showing all the fire damage.

At any rate, Brother Zhang managed to extract the RTX 3070 amongst the tangle of melted fans, cables, and the fried motherboard.

He tested the graphics card and found that the GPU chip was still alive, and set about the repair of the card using the 'boiling water method.' (Don't try this at home, obviously, but it involves boiling the graphics card - in a digital ultrasonic cleaning machine, not a saucepan - before carefully drying it out in an 'oven' - not a conventional one, but another fancy gadget).

A long repair and troubleshooting process is then undertaken, before at the close of the video, Brother Zhang demonstrates the RTX 3070 working and running games just fine. A pretty impressive comeback from the suspected dead, indeed...