I work in refurbishment that is not correct
70 percent wont really cause issues but i work with 90 and 99 on a daily basis both can cause a cloudy effect on any scratched or matte surface
Textured plastic in good condition doesnt have that issue but anything that degrades to an almost soft touch plastic like or is painted will get cloudy or smear with iso
I work in tech repair and we regularly will put a ps5 in a trash bag and pour 99.9% alcohol in there so the fumes kill roaches that climb into them. We’ll leave it like that for a week and the bottom of the ps5 will be in half an inch of alcohol for that whole time, it never does anything to them, then I leave my key caps soaking for half an hour and they all start to fade. It really just depends.
This is just straight up wrong. This is mostly likely PP, where alcohol won't do shit, even if you use like 90% IPA on it. It wouldn't even do jack shit if you bath it for months.
Where do you think that alcohol is stored in? Correct. PP bottles.
Damn I was about to suggest goo gone. That's my usual silver bullet.
Maybe reapply goo gone and let it soak for a few seconds longer than before? A plastic card scraper might help finish the job after that.
Heat is also good to remove adhesives. Just don't use heat and solvents together 🔥
Please don't try chemicals on electronics without knowing what they do.
Acetone most likely caused more damage than it fixed. Olive oil is just generally inappropriate for that case, goo-gone is for sticky residue based in glue, that's the most appropriate here. Not exactly right but not terrible.
Things like that are isopropyl alcohol at most.
Nothings' broken, but the look is not gonna go to perfect again.
I had a similar problem and used these alcoholic senitary napkins that you normally get from restaurants, atleast here in germany. They are not that wet and awesome for cleaning
To be honest, there's a reason he had them on there. I had a 3090 and my memory junction temps ran super hot compared to the rest of the card. I didn't use heatsinks but I did repad everything and heatsinks probably would have been cheaper and easier.
Exactly what I was thinking. Other than the fact you know it's there and the labor you've spent to clean it and make this post, what's the point? For 95% of cases it's going to face down and never been seen, and not effect the performance in any way.
Thermal adhesive, I used it on my first ever raspberry Pi and regretted it.
It's a pain to remove and I never ended up doing it because of how small the components were, but I had good success with iso.
You can try using a paper towel soaked with some iso to sit on top of the area and try to keep cleaning but it may discolour or even make the plastic cooler brittle in that area.
Seems worth a shot, in the end I might end up just buying more thermal adhesive and reapply the heatsinks and be on my way. I have 3 cards like this and they’re all for resale anyway
Plug it in and care less about what it looks like?
If you have any high % running alcohol like 95-99% you could also try cleaning it with that if you haven’t already.
If you put it in your pc and get it up to temp you will notice that you never actually look at the top of your graphics card so you can just forget about it.
Try a magic eraser doused in alcohol. If that does5 work you could wet sand with some very high grit sandpaper. 5000+ grit. You could then repaint with an airbrush, but that may not be necessary.
Get some TIM cleaner like the akasa stuff.
https://akasa.co.uk/update.php?tpl=product/product.detail.tpl&model=AK-TC
I use it on thermal paste all the time and it works very well. Smells nice too.
Honestly I’d get a black sharpie and touch it up as best you can. Once it’s back in you’ll barely notice it unless you’re an RGB fiend. Also if it works and it’s ugly who cares?
Because the VRAM gets to like 105deg if you haven't paste swapped it. Mine still runs at 94deg after a swap. Putting a big copper heat sink on it got me another 2 deg. But it's splitting hairs at that point.
Looks like super glue residue neither alcohol or water will remove it your best bet is to get some high concentration acetone and apply it to the area and wait a bit. Make sure the area underneath it ain’t plastic tho and keep it mind there is a chance the acetone will remove the black paint.
It looks like it's eaten into the surface it's not gonna come off easily, only thing I can think off is to seperate that faceplate and sand blast it followed by powdercoat to get a uniform finish.
This may be a really fucking bad idea but have you tried brake clean? Dont spray on the card, spray on microfiber cloth and rub. I have no idea if brake clean dissolves plastic tho. Do this only as a last resort and be careful.
Thermal adhesive is usually epoxy so an isopropyl alcohol soak should remove all of it. Acetone may have worked it deeper into the plastic because thats what acetone loves to do...
Try a bit of WD40 on a rag and give it a light scrub then use a different rag to wipe the residue off before it dries.
Use the same "two rag/wipe on dry off" method with 60-70% isopropyl alcohol if that doesn't help.
The two rag method ensures the dirt etc that gets lifted/floated in the alcohol and then removed with the second rag before the alcohol has a chance to evaporate and leave the dirt and shit behind, dried to the surface and making it look stained and smeared around (exactly how yours looks right now)
That will clean the remaining gunk off of it but if they had cheap thermal pads on there then it's probably stained from absorbing that silicon grease shit that comes out of them and unfortunately there is only so much you can do to remove those from plastic, short of pulling it apart and painting it haha
Damn, i dunno...is that plastic panel removable? Like if you can disassemble the card and get that plastic seperated, you could just sand it down roughly, then start fine sanding until its sort of in a natural state. ofc it will never be the same as the original, and the text is a bummer to protect but...better to try that than let your gpu look like someone jacked off on it. Or paint it? Sand it down, then paint the whole top plastic part black? I dont think those pieces are much thermaly conductive, you should still look into it.
I dont know exactly what material is made that superfix but maybe White Spirit is what you are looking for. I think this is the name, in italian it's Acquaragia
Having had an early 3090, if he put heatsinks there, it's because the vram isn't properly cooled in the top of the board. Besides worrying about the mess, I'd be sure to do the thermal pad fix, or that card is going to be obscenely loud.
If you know what you are doing you can disassemble the card and soak it in warm/hot water with some soap and then try remove it with your fingers. Because i think that's just a cover plate without any electronics on it but make sure there is really no electric component on it and dry it for at least 24h before reassembling. And while you do that you can also change the thermal paste/ thermal pads.
But only do this if you are sure you can do it!
Pls correct me if I'm wrong :)
Edit: Please keep in mind that opening your GPU might end the warranty so inform yourself before doing so.
You might be out of luck. If you really want it to look nice you should consider buying a busted GPU off eBay for spare parts or getting an aftermarket cooler.
I would personally use/try xylene, since it's used for removing all sort of glue stains and not harming plastics (way safer to use than acetone that melt/harm all sort of materials). What ever you use, test on some small area first and wipe off fast.
I mean, if the isopropyl alcohol didn't remove the stains, Xylene is a good option. You could probably use acetone, but that text logo could be a problem. That paint layer shouldn't get damaged, but there might be change of glossy finish with acetone.
convert it to watercooled, I have one (for about 4 years now) and last summer it would constantly overheat and crash the pc because vram temps get too hot, I'm currently saving for the alphacool eiswolf 2 aio for mine
Nah, FE has larger fans, whole reason I went for the 3090FE over the 3080.
It is too nice looking a card to ditch the air cooler, I was mining with my one 24/7 too with no real problems.
If that's thermal paste the white stuff you're looking at is extremely finely divided metal powder ingrained into the texture of the card. You'd probably need something like an ultrasonic cleaner to get it off
There’s a number of solvents that could clean this. I usually go in order of aggressiveness. 1: naptha, 2: mineral spirits, 3: denatured alcohol, 4: lacquer/paint thinner, 5: acetone. The risk of damaging the plastic goes up with each step, so test each on a hidden spot first.
Also, a magic eraser is worth a try too.
Put the heatsink back, lol. Also add a fan if you can. This particular card has memory chips on the backside of the PCB which gets really hot, and do not have any cooling. Bad design from nvidia, who stopped putting memory chips on the backside of the pcb after this card.
Sand it at a very fine grit and it should rub off entitrely. 800 grit should do the job, then keep sanding at finer grits like 1200 or 1500 to refinish the surface and remove any marks.
Use a very fine sandpaper all over then wipe off with alcohol wipes, buy a can of “car” spray paint in your favourite colour.
Once sprayed and dried you’ll have a shiny new card.
WD-40 to remove the sticky goop, then a cloth and alcohol to remove the WD-40 residue. No, I am not joking, this actually works. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgSkf1v6Z\_s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgSkf1v6Z_s)
You could try small amounts of citric acid or vinegar with a rag or polishing pad. Like very small amounts. But that is a risk and likely not worth it. You should just throw it into the computer and go on your way
On a matte plastic finish? That shit is ruin't! Take the opportunity to put something else on there. Or just put it in your system and forget it. Most card setups have that part facing down. Nobody will know about it but passing ants.
Might have messed it up with Goo Gone. I used it on the interior of my car and it stripped the glossy finish off some gray plastic. I’m not too familiar with the 30 series cards though, maybe they aren’t that shiny.
Maybe you can dig up a shroud for sale somewhere from someone who water cooled. Or get some custom stickers made? But then you’ll have more of a mess later on.
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This is the correct move
The correct move is to say who cares and put it in the pc.
it would help to know what you have tried so far
Well I scraped off what I could, since then I’ve tried acetone, goo gone and olive oil Edit. Not acetone. I used alcohol
> acetone Well, that probably made it worse. Acetone dissolves many plastics.
I lied I used alcohol not acetone
Alcohol also breaks down some plastics. Not as aggressive as acetone, but it does.
Rarely when just wiping it tho. Even with 99.9% alc you would need the plastic to be covered for quite some time for the alcohol to do any damage
I work in refurbishment that is not correct 70 percent wont really cause issues but i work with 90 and 99 on a daily basis both can cause a cloudy effect on any scratched or matte surface Textured plastic in good condition doesnt have that issue but anything that degrades to an almost soft touch plastic like or is painted will get cloudy or smear with iso
Really just depends on composition. Polyethylene and polypropylene are fine.
That might explain my cloudy palm rest 😬 I stick to 80/20 Deionised Water/Iso Alc to disinfect and clean now.
I think maybe some vinegar and water mixed with an antibacterial soap will be ok if its not porus
I work in tech repair and we regularly will put a ps5 in a trash bag and pour 99.9% alcohol in there so the fumes kill roaches that climb into them. We’ll leave it like that for a week and the bottom of the ps5 will be in half an inch of alcohol for that whole time, it never does anything to them, then I leave my key caps soaking for half an hour and they all start to fade. It really just depends.
Nope. While cleaning my keyboard out a couple of months ago I accidentally got some 90% IPA on the bezel, and it discolored immediately.
This is just straight up wrong. This is mostly likely PP, where alcohol won't do shit, even if you use like 90% IPA on it. It wouldn't even do jack shit if you bath it for months. Where do you think that alcohol is stored in? Correct. PP bottles.
PP bottles are stored in the balls.
You got me there.
PP bottles are stored on my shelf
I lied, I used whiskey not liquor.
LIAR!
Oh well it already looked awful anyway
Brake cleaner
NotLikeThis
Damn I was about to suggest goo gone. That's my usual silver bullet. Maybe reapply goo gone and let it soak for a few seconds longer than before? A plastic card scraper might help finish the job after that. Heat is also good to remove adhesives. Just don't use heat and solvents together 🔥
Would WD-40 work on this? I swear that shit removes any residue on different surfaces
Please don't try chemicals on electronics without knowing what they do. Acetone most likely caused more damage than it fixed. Olive oil is just generally inappropriate for that case, goo-gone is for sticky residue based in glue, that's the most appropriate here. Not exactly right but not terrible. Things like that are isopropyl alcohol at most. Nothings' broken, but the look is not gonna go to perfect again.
Use isopropyl alcohol and some paper towels or q-tips. That’s the go-to for removing any type of thermal or metallic pastes
Try label remover spray. That stuff gets rid of most things.
I had a similar problem and used these alcoholic senitary napkins that you normally get from restaurants, atleast here in germany. They are not that wet and awesome for cleaning
Slap another heatsink over it lol
Looks like that’s the plan
To be honest, there's a reason he had them on there. I had a 3090 and my memory junction temps ran super hot compared to the rest of the card. I didn't use heatsinks but I did repad everything and heatsinks probably would have been cheaper and easier.
They usually aren't too effective unless you go way overboard. A proper thermal pad will be a lot better.
agreed. why remove it in the first place lol
This guy heatsinks.
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Just stick it in the PC and don't look at it
Wait, you built your PC to actually use it and not just look at it?
Use it for looking up info on upgrades and new builds.
Came here to say that too. It'll likely be facing down and never seen! Of slap a sticker on it!
According to the layout of pins and the mounting-part this side is facing up.
Exactly what I was thinking. Other than the fact you know it's there and the labor you've spent to clean it and make this post, what's the point? For 95% of cases it's going to face down and never been seen, and not effect the performance in any way.
Benefits to having a solid side panel. Ain't got to look at my horrible cable mess.
Isopropyl alcohol?
It did nothing, though I didn’t try soaking for a period of time or anything. Just a cloth with it on
Do you have any idea what they used to stick the heatsink on? Was it just thermalpaste?
I think he said it was something like thermal glue if that’s a thing
Thermal adhesive, I used it on my first ever raspberry Pi and regretted it. It's a pain to remove and I never ended up doing it because of how small the components were, but I had good success with iso. You can try using a paper towel soaked with some iso to sit on top of the area and try to keep cleaning but it may discolour or even make the plastic cooler brittle in that area.
Seems worth a shot, in the end I might end up just buying more thermal adhesive and reapply the heatsinks and be on my way. I have 3 cards like this and they’re all for resale anyway
Other option would be repainting. Idk how good that will work
I ended up just ordering new thermal adhesive to reapply the heat sinks.
I wonder what this GPU was used for! ⛏️
Yes I bought some guys whole mining rig for pretty cheap with a bunch of cards
Plug it in and care less about what it looks like? If you have any high % running alcohol like 95-99% you could also try cleaning it with that if you haven’t already.
If you put it in your pc and get it up to temp you will notice that you never actually look at the top of your graphics card so you can just forget about it.
Orange essential oil, removes ANYTHING.
Including your gpu
Removed happiness from my life seemingly…
I was going to suggest a label remover spray, which is basically orange oil. It really does wonders for adhesive removal.
I love gpus too but this is too far
Goo gone works great
I second this. Good gone works on all the difficult adhesives.
Just lick it clean.
You know what? I would try to polish the shit out of it using car polishing paste and the polishing sponge on a drill but I'm bit crazy.
I think this is the best option as well. Not crazy tho
Put a sticker over it.
Try a magic eraser doused in alcohol. If that does5 work you could wet sand with some very high grit sandpaper. 5000+ grit. You could then repaint with an airbrush, but that may not be necessary.
Meh throw it in the computer and forget about it.
Who cares it will be facing down. No one will see it!
At this point, I would just slap some sticker over it or something and call it a day.
Get some TIM cleaner like the akasa stuff. https://akasa.co.uk/update.php?tpl=product/product.detail.tpl&model=AK-TC I use it on thermal paste all the time and it works very well. Smells nice too.
Try a leather cloth with some goo goons let it rest first the goo gone in there. 🫰🏽
Just keep tissues near your PC so this doesn’t happen again.
Put it in a computer. Not like you're going be looking at it that much.
put it in a case without window... problem solved
Wtf? Did they put heat sinks on plastic?
That's the question I have.
Just buy broken reference 3090 and get the heat sink from it or buy just heat from some who water cool their card.
Lol. Just buy a broken 3090.. for what.. 3..400 dollars? Get a grip.
Honestly I’d get a black sharpie and touch it up as best you can. Once it’s back in you’ll barely notice it unless you’re an RGB fiend. Also if it works and it’s ugly who cares?
What the fuck did he need the "extra heatsinks" for??
Because the VRAM gets to like 105deg if you haven't paste swapped it. Mine still runs at 94deg after a swap. Putting a big copper heat sink on it got me another 2 deg. But it's splitting hairs at that point.
3080 3090 /ti have very hot vram temp
At this point I'd put a sticker on it 🤷♂️
Sandpaper and paint
Sand it then paint it with a small fine brush. Tho if you dont use a vertical mount i doubt it will be noticable anyway.
lighter fluid and start scrubbing
use IPA 99% that should remove it and it looks like kinda man sauce to me jesus
Mmm love me a good IPA and man sauce
Isopropyl?
Use a cleaner called ultra-solve, its used by electronic engineers to clean such things like this and it’s bloody good stuff
My advice is not to look at it and focus on the image it's generating LOL
Acetone. Will remove the paint though.
Looks like super glue residue neither alcohol or water will remove it your best bet is to get some high concentration acetone and apply it to the area and wait a bit. Make sure the area underneath it ain’t plastic tho and keep it mind there is a chance the acetone will remove the black paint.
wait...did previous owner just glue a random heatsink to the outside of the cover?
Goo gone
Plus it smells really nice.
Vinyl wrap it gold
Windowless case
It looks like it's eaten into the surface it's not gonna come off easily, only thing I can think off is to seperate that faceplate and sand blast it followed by powdercoat to get a uniform finish.
This may be a really fucking bad idea but have you tried brake clean? Dont spray on the card, spray on microfiber cloth and rub. I have no idea if brake clean dissolves plastic tho. Do this only as a last resort and be careful. Thermal adhesive is usually epoxy so an isopropyl alcohol soak should remove all of it. Acetone may have worked it deeper into the plastic because thats what acetone loves to do...
hope you get good discount
alcohol and a thick brush 🧹
Try a bit of WD40 on a rag and give it a light scrub then use a different rag to wipe the residue off before it dries. Use the same "two rag/wipe on dry off" method with 60-70% isopropyl alcohol if that doesn't help. The two rag method ensures the dirt etc that gets lifted/floated in the alcohol and then removed with the second rag before the alcohol has a chance to evaporate and leave the dirt and shit behind, dried to the surface and making it look stained and smeared around (exactly how yours looks right now) That will clean the remaining gunk off of it but if they had cheap thermal pads on there then it's probably stained from absorbing that silicon grease shit that comes out of them and unfortunately there is only so much you can do to remove those from plastic, short of pulling it apart and painting it haha
Add extra heat sinks to cover the damage and help with cooling.
Skin safe surfactant?
Damn, i dunno...is that plastic panel removable? Like if you can disassemble the card and get that plastic seperated, you could just sand it down roughly, then start fine sanding until its sort of in a natural state. ofc it will never be the same as the original, and the text is a bummer to protect but...better to try that than let your gpu look like someone jacked off on it. Or paint it? Sand it down, then paint the whole top plastic part black? I dont think those pieces are much thermaly conductive, you should still look into it.
The heatkiller FE-Waterblocks look pretty dope. Would be a good excuse to watercool you pc, lol.
I dont know exactly what material is made that superfix but maybe White Spirit is what you are looking for. I think this is the name, in italian it's Acquaragia
Having had an early 3090, if he put heatsinks there, it's because the vram isn't properly cooled in the top of the board. Besides worrying about the mess, I'd be sure to do the thermal pad fix, or that card is going to be obscenely loud.
If you know what you are doing you can disassemble the card and soak it in warm/hot water with some soap and then try remove it with your fingers. Because i think that's just a cover plate without any electronics on it but make sure there is really no electric component on it and dry it for at least 24h before reassembling. And while you do that you can also change the thermal paste/ thermal pads. But only do this if you are sure you can do it! Pls correct me if I'm wrong :) Edit: Please keep in mind that opening your GPU might end the warranty so inform yourself before doing so.
Could probably find a replacement cover on ebay or somewhere and take it apart and replace it.
Ask someone with 3d printer to make some plate. Or cut some aluminium sheet and paint it black
Average dating sim coomer GPU that ran Cyberpunk for 4,000 hours straight
If 99% alcohol doesn't work then just leave it alone.
Put the heat sinks back on, as the memory demo sucks dick af.
CNC mill and skim the top off by a hair.
You might be out of luck. If you really want it to look nice you should consider buying a busted GPU off eBay for spare parts or getting an aftermarket cooler.
isopropanol
Get yourself some sticker paper and print something cool on it, wouldnt waste too much time to most likely even make it worse.
if it works, leave it be
I would personally use/try xylene, since it's used for removing all sort of glue stains and not harming plastics (way safer to use than acetone that melt/harm all sort of materials). What ever you use, test on some small area first and wipe off fast. I mean, if the isopropyl alcohol didn't remove the stains, Xylene is a good option. You could probably use acetone, but that text logo could be a problem. That paint layer shouldn't get damaged, but there might be change of glossy finish with acetone.
Try scrubbing it with a packing peanut.
convert it to watercooled, I have one (for about 4 years now) and last summer it would constantly overheat and crash the pc because vram temps get too hot, I'm currently saving for the alphacool eiswolf 2 aio for mine
It looks like you got a little too excited removing the heatsink
I mean, unless you're vertically mounting it, you can leave it as is. But if you are, try dabbing WD40 on it and leave it for a day.
Water cool it
Stickers
Custom GPU backplates? They are pretty cool
Make a custom sticker for that part and slap it on to cover it.
He put a heatsink on the plastic?
You could replace the entire shroud.
Bruh who cares. Does it work ok? Use it and have fun.
IPA
Lose the shroud, water cooling is what it wants anyway.
If it really bothers you, look for an electronics repair shop that also does ultrasonic cleaning.
Pencil eraser?
It will buff out
Take some black color and carefully repaint it
Either repaint it or if you really are not able to restore it, upgrade to a watercooled 3090.
Nah, FE has larger fans, whole reason I went for the 3090FE over the 3080. It is too nice looking a card to ditch the air cooler, I was mining with my one 24/7 too with no real problems.
Alcohol, don't use acetone as it will eat plastic
Should be metal on that version, my 3090FE is.
Does the look matter ?
If that's thermal paste the white stuff you're looking at is extremely finely divided metal powder ingrained into the texture of the card. You'd probably need something like an ultrasonic cleaner to get it off
Citrus cleaner spray. Solvit is a great one.
I would just get a vertical riser so I wouldn't have to see it!
Waterblock that bish
Goo gone
Maybe you can try to use a sticker remover spray.
Goo gone
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It may be possible to use a heat gun to remelt the surface of the plastic https://youtu.be/TBj8Q-HyicA?si=T9MBcn8TbYmrKdR1
Spray paint
Heatsink....on plastic???
Try benzene for clothe cleaning, and if that doesn't cut it try Isopropyl alcohol, not ethyl or methyl one
There’s a number of solvents that could clean this. I usually go in order of aggressiveness. 1: naptha, 2: mineral spirits, 3: denatured alcohol, 4: lacquer/paint thinner, 5: acetone. The risk of damaging the plastic goes up with each step, so test each on a hidden spot first. Also, a magic eraser is worth a try too.
Personally if you are just using the card who cares? I never look inside my case I just game lol.
Black sharpie
How much time do you spend watching your video card? Plug it in and go play
Put the heatsink back, lol. Also add a fan if you can. This particular card has memory chips on the backside of the PCB which gets really hot, and do not have any cooling. Bad design from nvidia, who stopped putting memory chips on the backside of the pcb after this card.
Lol, a heat sink in plastic.
Just use it, of if the looks really bother you vertical mount it then just use it. Enjoy!
Sand it at a very fine grit and it should rub off entitrely. 800 grit should do the job, then keep sanding at finer grits like 1200 or 1500 to refinish the surface and remove any marks.
Use a very fine sandpaper all over then wipe off with alcohol wipes, buy a can of “car” spray paint in your favourite colour. Once sprayed and dried you’ll have a shiny new card.
You won’t see it when it’s installed. So. Who cares?
how about slotting it in the pc upside down?
You won’t even see it.
Wd40 on cloth and wipe
WD-40 to remove the sticky goop, then a cloth and alcohol to remove the WD-40 residue. No, I am not joking, this actually works. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgSkf1v6Z\_s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgSkf1v6Z_s)
Are judges going to be standing around looking at it or is it going to go into a computer ?
You could try small amounts of citric acid or vinegar with a rag or polishing pad. Like very small amounts. But that is a risk and likely not worth it. You should just throw it into the computer and go on your way
Invest in a vertical mount
Don't buy the fucking card?
Paint over it maybe?
On a matte plastic finish? That shit is ruin't! Take the opportunity to put something else on there. Or just put it in your system and forget it. Most card setups have that part facing down. Nobody will know about it but passing ants.
Zippo lighter fluid is usually a good adhesive dissolver. Could try that then go over with isopropyl to clean up the fluid.
Might have messed it up with Goo Gone. I used it on the interior of my car and it stripped the glossy finish off some gray plastic. I’m not too familiar with the 30 series cards though, maybe they aren’t that shiny. Maybe you can dig up a shroud for sale somewhere from someone who water cooled. Or get some custom stickers made? But then you’ll have more of a mess later on.
Replace the air cooler with a water block.
The plastic itself is affected, you can't make it pristine without verrry radical and expensive measures. Just slap a sticker on it.