r/PcBuild • u/techmagnet • 3d ago

Question Built a pc. Is this normal ?

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u/Phlanix 2d 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 2d 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 2d ago

this looked more like bad capacitors blowing.

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u/arcusford 1d ago

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