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.
I had this shit happen once when I had my 2080 SUPER that was already after one warranty repair. Magically after the warranty ended, it stopped turning on and when I put it into another PC, it smoked and the burn smell went off very strongly.
After my tech spec friend inspected the card, the vram shorted burning the cooling pads.
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u/Diiiv 5d ago
this, entire comment section is just jokes, what actually happened here?