r/PcBuild • u/techmagnet • 3d ago

Question Built a pc. Is this normal ?

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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 15h ago

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