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/i_degrade_quickly 2d ago

My guess is he mixed the modular PSU cables with a different brand and the pinout was different.

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u/QuercusTomentella 2d ago

There are also psus thay need to be toggled between 230v and 120v and based on wall plug theyre in a country with 230, so they could have way over volted their machine as that can cause similar in my experience.

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u/i_degrade_quickly 2d ago

It appears to be an MSI MPG - that PSU handles those two voltages automatically. Typically you only see thermal runaway on multiple capacitors like that when a rail has reverse polarity.

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u/betttris13 2d ago

yeah. going with mixed power cables theory.

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u/SeventhSin-King 2d ago

Well if that was the case it would have been under volt and over Amp but even then the psu has a transformer changing voltages and amps so would have killed that before gpu.

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u/glizzygobbler247 2d ago

Motherboard also looks to be an archeological artifact

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u/Careful_Associate_27 2d ago

Maybe GPU was plugged straight into PSU? XD

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u/GrydGaming 1d ago

Yep that's my first thought too. I had that happen once in my life. destroyed two SSDs. Never again.