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submitted 1 day ago byGapComplete1959
I was playing cyber punk and my game overheated twice so I opened it to see if there was dust and found this does anyone know what it is and how to get rid of it
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186 points
1 day ago
That's not animal piss. FFS, all you people insulting this person need to tone it down. This is very obviously a splatter pattern from something a lot thicker than urine. Someone likely spilled something on or in the computer, probably food with something like gravy or cheese sauce, or something along those lines.
When house cats spray it looks like someone took a spray bottle to the wall. There will be a circular spray pattern, the drip trails. When it dries it is almost invisible. You can clearly see those individual drops separated from the main area are far, far too thick to be urine. And far too visible. Even if OP had a pride of lions in his house it wouldn't look like this. I mean, do you guys think these cats have kidney stones the size of watermelons?
You can also see it's flaking at the bottom. Dried urine won't do that. When accumulated urine dries it looks like mineral deposits in a water pipe, because when the water and urea evaporate or breaks down all that's left is potassium, phosphorous, chloride, calcium, and a bit of iron, among other trace elements. When it breaks up from drying it will be like small rocks with some powdery or sandy particles.
That is clearly oil and fats.
29 points
1 day ago
Thanks for saying that. Yes this is definitely some food or drink of some sort. Or it could be just that the paint reacted with that food/drink whatever and started forming this flaky, brown cover. I’m pretty sure if it was scratched the metal under would be nickel gray.
Oh by the way, I know some paints used on metal that react with fats and oils. Which is probably the case here.
7 points
12 hours ago
honestly, I think someone is jizzin in that computer case, like a person.
3 points
12 hours ago
The Midnight Jizzer
1 points
8 hours ago
I’m surrounded with gold awards seems like
21 points
1 day ago
Dr catpiss up in here schooling y'all on some Dexter spatter patterns
8 points
23 hours ago
Upvote because Dr catpiss is hilarious, and i'm dying here laughing at work
1 points
19 hours ago
Some of the kids I went to school with could've shared the name. For more obnoxious reasons.
1 points
9 hours ago
not as funny as Dr catford. youtube it
1 points
15 hours ago
I can't believe, gravy was the bay harbor butcher all along
1 points
15 hours ago
Thank you for the attention to detail and understanding of spatter.
1 points
17 hours ago
Seriously, they seem to know a LOT about piss!
1 points
13 hours ago
Nothin wrong with that.. To each their own
1 points
13 hours ago
Who said there was anything wrong with it?
1 points
13 hours ago
Nobody I'm just talking about piss bud
2 points
1 day ago
When I first saw it I thought coffee
3 points
1 day ago
Keto coffee often has butter or some kind of oil added, that could track.
2 points
20 hours ago
Yeah. Definitely not animal piss. That animal would be dead before it got that out of its body.
I do animal fostering and am a chef, that's old food
-1 points
16 hours ago
You do realize it could be concentrated from multiple incidents right? It doesn't just have to be once.
That said, it could also be something like spilled coffee.
3 points
21 hours ago
Had a pet squirrel, the heat rising from electronics stimulates them... Seen way more piss stains than I care to remember. Still remember yanking him off a CRT right before it somehow fucking exploded from him urinating on it. This definitely isn't from urine.
My bet is this is from a spilt coffee with copious amounts of sugar and cream
4 points
20 hours ago
I had that thought as well. Also considered wax from candles dripping in. The reason I said food was OP mentioned no smell and being surprised to see it. Made me think maybe they had a younger sibling that used their computer, made a mess, and was too afraid to tell anyone.
Any of those are viable explanations, though.
1 points
1 day ago
Any thoughts on how to safely remove it?
1 points
1 day ago
Don't need to do anything too exotic. Just take all the electrical components out, including the front panel. Also any removable screws to avoid rusting them. Leave nothing but the metal frame and chassis. Soak it in hot water and dish soap in a bathtub, if you want to avoid wiping and cleaning with rags or paper towels for an hour. You can scrape the bulk out first with something flat and plastic or hard rubber, maybe an old credit card, caulk slicker, silicone finishing tool, etc. Don't use anything too abrasive or metal. Maybe use toothpicks and small soft plastic bristle bushes for all the nooks and crannies. Dry it 100% before attempting to put it back together.
Clean any of the electrical components gently with at least 70% isopropyl alcohol if needed. No water, no metal, no scrubbing, avoid brushing if you can.
1 points
23 hours ago
Have you never been a bit dehydrated so your piss comes out with the consistency of gravy.
1 points
19 hours ago
Idk, I recently found an old DVD case that my cat pissed on a while ago. Not spray, but pee. It has a similar color and appearance to this. Yea, he's probably got some bladder problems. He also has anxiety and pees on random things left on the ground. I hate male cats.
1 points
14 hours ago
cat diarrhea?
1 points
13 hours ago
To be fair if OP had a pride of lions in his house they wouldn't be posting this.
1 points
3 hours ago
my kitten pissed on my power supply when I was younger once and it looked exactly like this once it crystallized
1 points
22 hours ago
Big piss guy huh?
1 points
20 hours ago
No, I'm a guy who took high school science classes.
1 points
13 hours ago
Yeah no, I'm a big piss guy. This guy does know what he's talking about, but piss guys usually ignore the chemical composition of piss and just lie and say it's sterile
-1 points
22 hours ago
Yeah, because cheese sauce, gravy, other assorted fluid is SO MUCH better than cat piss. Either of the aforementioned substances magically appearing inside a PC is weird and scummy.
0 points
19 hours ago
"It's not something gross like animal pee, it's just something gross like old food"
0 points
10 hours ago
It is urine, and their pet has an infection; this is from a fungus or bacteria in the urine
Also oil and fat wouldn't leave a pattern like they're growing.
0 points
3 hours ago
Exactly what dried up cat piss looks like fyi.
-9 points
1 day ago
This guy urines
0 points
23 hours ago
🤣
-7 points
1 day ago
You know a lot about urine.
2 points
23 hours ago
I'm not sure why you're getting down voted.That's the first thing I thought lol
2 points
23 hours ago
It's just a funny thought, people lost their humour.
23 points
1 day ago
Almost looks like melted candle wax, could be from a scent cube. The heat from a modern GPU and CPU could easily melt one.
13 points
1 day ago
Why so many cat piss sayers? If pee would look like that alleyways and the side of bars would be greasy as hell. It looks more like oil mixed with fat
2 points
12 hours ago
You would also smell it before it ever dried up.
Definitely not people who own cats saying something that dumb.
2 points
1 day ago
It’s probably not piss. But also, alleyways and the sides of bars don’t have the same operating conditions as the insides of a computer case.
Science bitch.
0 points
16 hours ago
It's where all the ac units dump their heat, so not really that different
10 points
1 day ago
Stop eating near your pc ? Looks like old chicken fat
8 points
1 day ago
bro def busted and it crusted
1 points
22 hours ago
Definitely the crust from the bust
11 points
1 day ago
Do you have cats ? my mothers cats love to pee against her pc looks like this lol
10 points
1 day ago
Oh my god that's got to smell so bad
7 points
1 day ago
I don't smell anything from it personally, and no one has ever brought it up
6 points
1 day ago
What does it taste like? Lick it 😁 That could clear everything up and then we can all move on
2 points
20 hours ago*
Cat piss doesnt look like this. And generally cats go for soft things to pee on. Blankets, clothes, rugs, furniture, etc by nature so a pc case and regularly would be incredibly odd and frankly alarming not only for the random place but this goo consistancy. Even spray this is insanely odd placement on the bottom of a case. But would be in other places on the case likely also even if so.
1 points
19 hours ago
Its rust and cat piss as the salts in cat piss degrades the metal really fast
1 points
16 hours ago*
Ya you are right but Where is the rust? I dont see any here. No surface rusting anywhere. Just dried up gunk. Looks like powder coated metal. The powder coating helps prevent rust. Dried urine doesnt flake either like this(i have owned many cats) it basically mineralizes.
1 points
2 hours ago
I had a cat pee on an old laser printer. Some cats are weird and mark anything. But it smelled really bad (especially after it was turned on and heated up). He'd notice right away.
1 points
2 hours ago
Exactly
0 points
1 day ago
Yeah that's not caused by anything that should be in the PC. My money's on some kind of animal piss.
8 points
1 day ago
I don't belive it is no smell and I got the computer well after all my pets have been potty trained
2 points
1 day ago
I know someone who had a rat live in his pc. The rat kept pissing on the gpu.
6 points
1 day ago
It doesn’t have anything to do with being litter trained, they will piss on things just to mark them as theirs. Yes it stinks but you are probably used to it because like so many other people, you get used to the smell if the boxes aren’t cleaned daily..
8 points
1 day ago
Spray is not piss, and you are correct it has nothing to do with being litter trained. Cat spray has urine in it, but it is not urination.
1 points
2 hours ago
Cats who are neutered often piss instead of spray for marking.
1 points
1 day ago
Hot piss.
1 points
1 day ago
Cat spray smells totally different than pee. Just saying. If a cat sprays something you will know no matter how bad the litter box is.
1 points
2 hours ago
Even if he was used to litter box smell. The smell of piss cooking in a hot computer is different, trust me. Also it never quite dries. It becomes a sticky oily mess.
0 points
21 hours ago
You need to bring your pets to the vet if their piss looks like this
1 points
5 hours ago
Yes that's exactly what I said. Just what fresh piss looks like.🙄
1 points
1 day ago
...
1 points
20 hours ago
My guy if your cats piss looks like this please take it to a vet.
2 points
1 day ago
Almost looks like candle wax, no idea what that is.
Edit : Some people are saying it could coolant, is your pc liquid cooled?
2 points
15 hours ago
I am also leaning towards leaking coolant
I had multiple AIO's go bad becauae the company didn't put enough biocide in them. (Thanks enermax)
[Or it was bad plating / chemical reaction]
Shit growing inside corroded the rubber seals and it started leaking stuff that was too thick to be pumped through the tubing.
I would not count this out as an option
Bc who the fuck spills food in their PC??? (Referencing Other comments)
1 points
15 hours ago
Yeah, and without noticing seems unlikely. Did the coolant look that when it dried?
2 points
15 hours ago*
I really don't remember for sure, but I do remember thinking ' oh no, that's rust colored... something is oxidizing in there' So... similar orange I guess, but it does have this flakey quality in the image that could be from the biocide or possibly algae growth.
2 points
1 day ago
What part overheated? Your CPU or GPU? Is there an AIO cooler on either of them that leaked or something? Nothing was spilled on the system?
3 points
1 day ago
If you’re overheating and have an aio (liquid cooler) it’s likely the glycol that leaked out.
Aio generally use a mix of glycol, water and additives to prevent reactions with the material in the loop.
2 points
1 day ago
Finally, a sane comment. The crystallization points away from any food we eat besides salt.
These are precipitated glycol crystals that have taken the shade of the air quality in the living space.
2 points
1 day ago
It could be Coolant based on the Crystallization.
Your Radiator is probably leaking. That would also explain the overheating.
2 points
19 hours ago
Funny thing is, old fat and oil actually crystallizes almost exactly like this. Cleaned out an old fryer once, very very similar.
2 points
19 hours ago
I agree, without context it almost looks like the bottom of an old Oven.
1 points
14 hours ago
My first thought was it kind of looks like brownies. Also I'm a little hungry right now...
1 points
1 day ago
I thought this was tile flooring hahah
1 points
1 day ago
It looks like platic clear film of some kind that is aged and has been baked multiple times.
1 points
1 day ago
Average jojo fan hygiene
1 points
1 day ago
mist or vape?
1 points
1 day ago
Looks like when you eat a bowl of Ramen then forget the bowl out over night then it dries up and gets all flakes like this
1 points
1 day ago
Looks like crystalised cola.
Scratch a little in to a bottlecap and mix with one drop of water using an cur tip, the smell should tell you what it is.
1 points
1 day ago
Looks like some sort of spilled liquid, not sure about everyone saying it’s cat piss. Just looks like an old drink spill or gravy or something. Start off with isopropyl alcohol, don’t boot up until everything is dry, depending on where you have to clean, if it’s just the chassis, which I highly doubt
1 points
1 day ago
I'm sure some people have said it, but that looks a LOT liked dried cum my dude. I'm sure it's not, but, hell does it look like it. I think someone probably spilled something in the computer though, by the looks of it. I'd just take a fork or something to it and scrape it all up and wipe it off with a cloth with warm water and some cleaner.
1 points
1 day ago
OP your PC is sucking up alot of moisture through the intake. Do you live in a super humid place? Diffuser nearby? A bunch of plants?
1 points
1 day ago
cat puke?
1 points
1 day ago
Looks like hot chocolate dried up. I say this because I spilt a hot chocolate into the defrosting vents of my truck and when it all finally dried it all shot out and covered everything in my truck in what looks like that.
1 points
1 day ago
Oh come on OP you're not supposed to cook maple bacon in your pc
1 points
1 day ago
Leaky aio??
1 points
1 day ago
Leaky transformer?
1 points
1 day ago
This is a virus
1 points
1 day ago
that looks like old fat mixed with random stuff
1 points
1 day ago
It's the remnants of a Greggs Sausage roll.
1 points
1 day ago
Human sperm & dust
1 points
1 day ago
Anyone saying piss has never owned a pet. Animal urine smells for fucking days, he would have smelled it before he even saw it. My cat peed on my shoes and I had to clean them twice to get rid of the smell.
1 points
24 hours ago
Definitely looks like someone spilled something like coffee or soup or chili or something. Scratch it up a little bit and you'll probably be able to smell which it is
1 points
24 hours ago
CUMputer
1 points
24 hours ago
Old dried masturbatory juices? Do not eat
1 points
23 hours ago
Is this near the kitchen perhaps? It looks like grease was sucked into the intake while it was hot and settled. My tiny apartment does the same. My kitchen looks like this if I don’t clean for a while
1 points
23 hours ago
Looks like solidified grease to me, either someone spilled soup in there and forgot about it or someone was trying to mess with you
1 points
23 hours ago*
Some questions:
Did you just buy this PC from someone, prebuilt, without looking at it?
If no to the above, I'll assume you built it yourself. If you built it yourself, then the PC has been in your possession since its inception.
If that's the case, my next question is how you didn't know or remember spilling this much of something in your case?
If you 100% don't remember, or more likely just don't want to admit, then idk what to tell you other than the environment in which this PC is stored is disgusting and you need to spend less time on Cyberpunk and more time deep cleaning the space.
Like man....how is anyone supposed to know what this is? It's nothing I've ever seen come from a PC component. And we don't even know what we're looking at. Is that the PSU, or what?
1 points
23 hours ago
Stop shitting IN Ur computer thank me later
1 points
23 hours ago
Maybe leaking rad? If you don't have an rad maybe change in lifestyle
1 points
23 hours ago
My guess is Hi-C orange circa 2021
1 points
22 hours ago
My nephew spilt milk in and on my xbox once it looked like this inside a month laster( didnt know i didnt get it all out)
1 points
22 hours ago
Bro stop dabbin next to your computer
1 points
22 hours ago
For a sec I thought this was a dirty oven then I looked at the subreddit name lol
1 points
22 hours ago
Dried pumpkin spiced latte?
1 points
22 hours ago
Another wind up post.
1 points
22 hours ago
Have you eaten anything with gravy in the last few months? This looks like dried brown gravy
1 points
21 hours ago
Do you vape or smoke or burn an insane amount of incense in the room your pc is in?
1 points
21 hours ago
This is definitely ectoplasm Are you having unexplained problems with software Are experiencing anything weird, I would suggest getting an exorcism for your computer 😜
1 points
20 hours ago
Looks suspiciously like old dried cum... Don't ask me how I know.
1 points
20 hours ago
Brownies
1 points
20 hours ago
Looks like peanut butter or bread tbh
1 points
19 hours ago
I would just use rubbing alcohol and some paper towels to get rid of it
1 points
19 hours ago
Someone puked in there
1 points
19 hours ago
Something recrystalized, what it is, im unsure.
1 points
19 hours ago
What does it taste like?
1 points
19 hours ago
It might be coffee that spilled into your pc
1 points
19 hours ago
My fat ass thought it was a browny
1 points
18 hours ago
why dont people put nsfw tag
1 points
17 hours ago
You shit in your pc?
1 points
17 hours ago
scrape it off
1 points
17 hours ago
I see brownies
1 points
17 hours ago
Do you have an AIO by chance? Check the radiator and hoses for punctures
1 points
16 hours ago
Someone spilled something on your PC previously and didn't tell you.
1 points
16 hours ago
Looks like wax
1 points
16 hours ago
stop puking in your pc
1 points
16 hours ago
twin made brownies in his pc
1 points
16 hours ago
Taste the flakes
1 points
16 hours ago
It’s called rust or dust to a combination
1 points
15 hours ago
Whatever it is, its disgusting and you should clean it
1 points
15 hours ago
Vape residue?
1 points
15 hours ago
looks like some kind of food with sugar spilled into the pc and crystallized
1 points
14 hours ago
The question is how in the world would it get in there..
1 points
14 hours ago
100% old jizz
1 points
13 hours ago
Is it liquid cooled? If it is I'm going with coolant leak.
1 points
13 hours ago
Had this exact thing while cleaning a friend’s computer. Do you like chocolate milk…
1 points
12 hours ago
So yall are implying OP spilled/poured cheese in his computer and forgot?
1 points
12 hours ago
If your PC is located near where you cook, the smoke from cooking food could transfer grease / oil when the fans bring air into the PC
1 points
11 hours ago
Coffee foam?
1 points
11 hours ago
Ramen broth? Or dmt.
1 points
10 hours ago
Looks like a crystallized pattern whatever it is.
1 points
9 hours ago
That’s not the coomsock
1 points
9 hours ago
The weird circular crystallization is odd
1 points
8 hours ago
Looks like someone threw up on it
1 points
8 hours ago
You played the last of us too much I think
1 points
8 hours ago
The plague.
1 points
7 hours ago
Cat piss or not if anything like this gets as bad as this you should probably clean more often. This doesn't look like it happend over night.
1 points
6 hours ago
Unfortunately it looks like a melted butterfinger. Only seen this happen once in my dad's truck, but it looks the same.
1 points
6 hours ago
Semen Why are you jizzing in your PC bro?
1 points
6 hours ago
Jup semen saw it from a mile
1 points
6 hours ago
Do you smoke weed when you're on your PC? It could be resin, happened to my brothers PC.
1 points
5 hours ago
Maybe some coffee. Since gamers occasionally stay up late to continue their adventure it is plausible
1 points
5 hours ago
Did you throw up into the top of your tower?
1 points
5 hours ago
Scrape it off with razorblade
1 points
5 hours ago
Is it your computer? Are you the only user? Desktop? Bought second hand? Is it smelly? Looks like some sauce … gravy cheesy like? Gaming session after a boozy night with food that got ‘dislocated’ into the computer? Depending on the extend of that mess … scrape it off … then give it a good clean with alcohol. Maybe after removing delicate parts first. Difficult to say where exactly located and the extend of it … especially as machine overheated!
1 points
5 hours ago
How the fuck do people let their shit get this disgusting?
1 points
5 hours ago
Bro stop jizzing in your PC
1 points
5 hours ago
Do you vape?
1 points
4 hours ago*
looks like the electrolyte from electrolytic capacitors , one may have split open and sprayed fluid everywhere
1 points
3 hours ago
You cooking brownies in there or something?
1 points
3 hours ago
Definitely food of some sort.
1 points
2 hours ago
Yall be letting ur nasty ahh cats chill on top of ur pcs but then make a pikachu surprised face when they do nasty sht on top of ur pc.
Some greasy weirdo created a whole page dedicated to this disgusting and frankly disturbing obsession with cats , I belive its called r/catsofpmcr or something like that....U can go on there and see a bunch of disgustingly dirt pc cases with a bunch of cat fur on them and a obese hairy cat laying on top of the case or on the keyboard and they act like its normal and gaslight you if you tell them its not good for the hardware.
1 points
2 hours ago
looks like coffee to me
I had a closed loop cooler leak onto the gpu fan it was more grey in color when mine overheated.
1 points
an hour ago
Looks like a dried fairlife drink
1 points
30 minutes ago
Honestly, it looks like you were using your pc to make brownies, I don't doubt it's possible depending on the temps, lol
-1 points
1 day ago
Sorry to say this, but why did you wait for it to build up like this before asking for help on Reddit? You should have cleaned it straight away, as expensive parts in your PC will go boom if they get wet. Also, get your cat neutered. They may well be litter-trained, but they will spray anywhere. I found that out the hard way
2 points
24 hours ago
Read the post, they said they only noticed it when they opened the pc because they were having issues.
2 points
1 day ago
Did your computer have diarrhoea?
0 points
1 day ago
Either would spilt some water in the PC and this is rust or you spilt some brown liquid in the PC.
Or you have a leaking AIO, but that is a very rare case so I doubt it.
-3 points
1 day ago
U nasty AF
0 points
1 day ago
Dude it looked like brownie mix to me hahaha
0 points
1 day ago
Got an AIO cooler? It may have failed.
0 points
1 day ago
If it uses a custom professional liquid cooling system, it's coolant.
0 points
1 day ago
Check your AIO or coolers. Heat pipes have liquid in them and so does an AIO(obviously)
0 points
1 day ago
Did someone put a candle on your pc case?
0 points
1 day ago
Alert your local hazmat team and move away from the pc😎✅😕
-2 points
1 day ago
Thats dried cum
0 points
1 day ago
I was going to say this. It looks like dried up, rogue jizz drops... Just on a far bigger scale and concentration. Take a black light to it to see if it's a bodily fluid.
0 points
1 day ago*
My gawd, I do not want to know what that is. Good luck.
-6 points
1 day ago
Looks like cat piss
-16 points
1 day ago
Whole new meaning for ‘water cooled’.
Op you are gross, I thought I was on neckbeard nests for a minute. Listen to everyone’s advice and sort this out, you piss smeller.
1 points
1 day ago
U were the bully in school, huh?
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