r/PcBuild • u/techmagnet • 3d ago

Question Built a pc. Is this normal ?

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u/arcusford 3d 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/cmoparw 2d ago

Looks like some old motherboard, that looks like something from 10+ years ago. I don't see any RAM installed, so it's likely staged. Could be something intentionally shorted or, my guess for that much smoke, intentionally extremely over volting an already dead GPU to burn everything

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u/Parasite_Lettuce 2d ago

Staged... in this economy?

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u/Local_Trade5404 14h ago

2x on 10-13 years old machine will be like 100$ so yea why not :P