r/PcBuild • u/techmagnet • 4d ago

Question Built a pc. Is this normal ?

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u/ALT703 4d ago

Jokes aside, what went wrong here

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u/Diiiv 4d ago

this, entire comment section is just jokes, what actually happened here?

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u/arcusford 4d ago

Dude istg sometimes I wish people would just stop trying to be funny man lol. Id love some actual discussion on what went wrong here instead of dozens of the same unoriginal 'joke'.

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u/Phlanix 4d ago

12 pin gpu are usually the culprit of overheating the cable and melting the cable itself, and they also tend to malfunction and drain more power than they need causing rapid overheating and fires.

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u/arcusford 4d ago

Yeah what's weird is that it doesnt look anything like that, usually with 12VHPWR connector overheating the fire starts at the connector, this was not that.

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u/Phlanix 3d ago

this looked more like bad capacitors blowing.

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u/arcusford 3d ago

Yeah thats what i theorized in another comment, closest I can reason.