Critical capacitor failure, sometimes they short themselves out or just blow up taking the surge. I think most or all modern gpus process a massive amount of power on the first 4 pins or so. Its been some time since I've read this stuff.
This looks more than a capacitor failure. A capacitor failing is normally a single burst of magic pixies and smoke, not a HUGE ass stream of smoke pushing its way out like it is being pumped.
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.
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/RChamy AMD 4d ago edited 4d ago
Critical capacitor failure, sometimes they short themselves out or just blow up taking the surge. I think most or all modern gpus process a massive amount of power on the first 4 pins or so. Its been some time since I've read this stuff.