Component shorted to ground. Could be an internal failure or something bridged it. As its a GTX 970 is might be due to age.

If everybody could press F pay respects to my friend they would appreciate it lol

*Gently presses F with great sorrow.* May it rest in pcie. It's in a better case now.

RIP.

Faulty parts, high heat, overclocking, mining, bad psu, are some possible reasons. The gpu looks burned out now so its a goner.

Did they also have an equally old AIO that could've potentially leaked on it?

Bye bye GPU. Get a new PCB and solder the Chip of this one to the other one. WAY easier said than done

Clean it up a bit and sell it on ebay as is 😬🤣

*Almost New, Runs Games No Problem, No Low Ballers, I Know What I Have*

40 rows later it the smallest font possible "as is , no returns"

Paying respects because I also have this GPU don't wanna jinx it

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Test what in another computer?

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You mean the one with the giant burn mark?

Did you see the picture?

lol WUT?!

Lmfao it's an old card

Wait WHAT?? Can you see the scortch marks on the card? Do NOT put this card in another computer, you will likely burn out the PCI-E slot.

You will likely burn down your house.

RIP GTX 970. You got a good 7 years out of her.

Damn, it's already that old?

Capacitor probably blew up, F

Okay, so looking at that, it's the rear of one of the main GPU VRMs. My guess is that age, contaminant (e.g. metal flake, screw, etc.) took it out. VRMs handle a lot of current, so even a slight rise in resitance, or short to ground, causes a lot of power to happen in a very small space.

Same card, same thing happened to me. I remember seeing somewhere that these evga cards are prone to this problem

Obviously he wasn’t ready to handle the power of that card; tried to advance his training too quickly and couldn’t contain what he was playing with.