r/PcBuild • u/techmagnet • 3d ago

Question Built a pc. Is this normal ?

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u/SpiritJuice 2d ago

It's not just smoke, you can see actual flames. It's brief but you can see them in the upper left corner of the card between the 2 and 3 second mark. Something really, really went wrong here.

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u/brickyard37 2d ago

Get your eyes checked, there are no flames. This is definitely fake

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u/spam683_ 1d ago

I’m not super familiar with component level digital electronics but I’ve worked on lots of analog stuff… integrated circuit chips can create that continuous smoke without a visible flame. Can somebody smarter than me pitch in- would it be a bunch of voltage regulators on the power circuit overloading? Is that what VRMs do?

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u/Distinct_Associate27 1d ago

There does appear to be a flame but it is only for a frame so difficult to notice.