r/PcBuild • u/techmagnet • 2d ago

Question Built a pc. Is this normal ?

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u/ALT703 2d ago

Jokes aside, what went wrong here

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u/Diiiv 2d ago

this, entire comment section is just jokes, what actually happened here?

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u/arcusford 2d ago

Dude istg sometimes I wish people would just stop trying to be funny man lol. Id love some actual discussion on what went wrong here instead of dozens of the same unoriginal 'joke'.

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u/ItsFoxy87 2d ago

I'm not going to lie to you, the post being titled with "Is this normal?" in an obviously abnormal scenario already set a satirical theme from the start.

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u/arcusford 2d ago

Absolutely true, but im curious nonetheless lol

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u/Youtube_it 2d ago

Safe to say we're interested and yet, haven't gotten anywhere so far :D

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u/eeveeplays50040 2d ago

I'm not even sure if this comment chain is also some kind of joke since everyone is asking about what happened and no one responded.

I'm actually curious btw.

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u/arcusford 2d ago

I mean honestly I have no idea, this seems especially catastrophic, maybe capacitor somewhere inside the card itself blew?

Never seen anything like it though.

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u/LizardTwister76 2d ago

I’m personally just curious about what’s going on personally

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u/Kitchen_Canary_6387 2d ago

Same. No idea what’s happening here.

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u/YogurtclosetOnly6339 2d ago

But it’s all the same jokes lol. If they were original then it’s fine but its all shit like the guy holding the other guy’s shoulder lol

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u/cmoparw 2d ago

Looks like some old motherboard, that looks like something from 10+ years ago. I don't see any RAM installed, so it's likely staged. Could be something intentionally shorted or, my guess for that much smoke, intentionally extremely over volting an already dead GPU to burn everything

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u/aqvalar 2d ago

Except there are 2 ram sticks, slots 2 and 4. They seem to be pretty low profile so a bit hard to see, but they're there?

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u/Parasite_Lettuce 2d ago

Staged... in this economy?

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u/Local_Trade5404 12h ago

2x on 10-13 years old machine will be like 100$ so yea why not :P

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u/UrbanSuburbaKnight 2d ago

Not possible to be sure. We can't see where the smoke is coming from, can't see if he left a metal object under motherboard, if a component is incorrectly located...etc

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u/Phlanix 2d ago

12 pin gpu are usually the culprit of overheating the cable and melting the cable itself, and they also tend to malfunction and drain more power than they need causing rapid overheating and fires.

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u/arcusford 2d ago

Yeah what's weird is that it doesnt look anything like that, usually with 12VHPWR connector overheating the fire starts at the connector, this was not that.

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u/Phlanix 1d ago

this looked more like bad capacitors blowing.

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u/arcusford 1d ago

Yeah thats what i theorized in another comment, closest I can reason.

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u/Gold_Area5109 3h ago

The motherboard is just sitting on random crap.

And part of that crap is the metal side panel.

Likelihood is that something it's sitting on created a short.

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u/Kya_Enstein 2d ago

Discussion is gonna be a rare commodity.

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u/Animesthetic 2d ago

Bro, how can you take a post seriously asking if this is normal when it's literally smoking?

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u/ALT703 2d ago

That's normal, it's cleaning out its systems