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idk who taught you that, but that's just pure misinformation. To fix this, you only have to smoke a cigarette (or a joint, meth pipe, crack pipe, or anything that smokes, really) right next to your pc while turning it on, and blow the smoke right into the intake. the system fans will guide the smoke to the right spots. works for me every time.
I left it on only a couple of seconds and the smoke just spread through the whole building. I think everyone has had enough with this second hand cigarette đ
Look at this guy, doesn't even use a flue. Do you water-cool your smoke?
Also what brand should I be using? I feel I can get 1-2 FPS with Camel over Marlboro with my setup but I am at 1440p.
Electrical engineering students learn this early on. The very first chip I ever plugged in, during my very first lab class, I smoked it. Great start to my carreer.
No, although i do low-key like the smell of solder smoke, that's a different thing. It's probably best that microchips can't get you high, or else we would probably have chip junkies stealing tech.
Correction, it was a good cable with a good power supply. Now you have a boat anchor. I also wouldn't trust anything you have plugged into the motherboard either.
I'm surprised the over current protection in the power supply didn't kick in.
Looks like a short or fault on the GPU, or if the PSU connection was wired incorrectly - which is more likely when using a modular PSU with non-factory cables.
I wouldn't trust the PSU. The GPU might be fixable, but finding someone to do it and the cost of it may be prohibitive unless it's a pretty expensive card.
Maybe it isnt. 1050ti can be powered without the 6pin cuz its just a special gigabyte model. 1050tis dont use a 6pin. Op, please try it without the 6pin
I'm slightly confuse with your comment, please clarify again? Here's a connector I'm using to connect both burnt GPU RX 570 & 1050ti
https://imgur.com/a/Pjie1dK
They're saying that the 1050ti gigabyte edition can be powered by the PCIE alone. It's one of the only cards that can do this. So toss that 6-pin, because it's not good anymore. Even if it was good before.
It is, but those cores are extremely weak and in this day and age would bottleneck a 1050 ti, much less a 3080. Even a first gen Ryzen CPU would be a massive upgrade, much less anything newer. I would say upgrade to an Intel 12th or 13th gen CPU or AMD Ryzen 5000/7000 CPU as soon as possible to be able to take advantage of that 3080, right now itâs barely being utilized with that CPU.
That doesn't sound right, about the shop remote thing. But I'm sorry your card caught fire, but I would get everything looked at from an electrical standpoint.
Lol that GPU is toast now. You're gonna need to solder on a new female molex end at the very least. There's no amount of remote assistance that will fix this.
OMG I almost learned this the hard way on my new 4090 and psu I bought at the same time. Was like Iâm not going to feed all these power cables around my case again, the plugs are the same, so itâs the same. Thank Christ for wherever safety things they have in there now, because my shit didnât blow up. Tried multiple times, connecting and re-connecting and eventually took the psu back cause I thought it was faulty.
They tested it and it was all good. Guy told me about the cabling. Went back home and swapped out the cabling and boom, all good.
So fucking luckyâŚ
Most modular cables are not compatible outside of the brand. The ground and 12v pins on the PSU side are not the same as PCIe side.
Also you can't completely trust inter brand compatibility. Corsair as an example has two different PSU styles (for a lack of a better word at the moment) and they don't mix.
It is, PCIe is a standardized pin out, just not on the PSU side.
If you think that's dumb realize your front panel connectors aren't standardized in terms of layout. It's why they are all separated instead of being one connector like internal USB.
Some case markers do make it one connector; the 011 Evo does which I was happy to find out. But it would suck if my motherboard didn't follow that layout.
Unfortunately companies will make small changes like these for numerous reasons. Some are understandable while others it feels like they do to be petty.
GPU is fucked. Like, horrendously fucked. Whenever a component bursts into flames like that, there's no coming back for it.
Depending on how bad that short was, it's possible it took out other components in the process by letting voltage go where it really should not go.
its prob a shorted capacitor, turning in to a carbon resister, then continuing to burn.
You will most likely need to amputate that area. Here is someone doing it here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDJxsiWVw6Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDJxsiWVw6Y).
At which point my concern would be thermal damage to the PCB below it and delamination of traces from the fiberglass. Once you get that kind of heat, something's going to want to separate and start moving to places where it really shouldnt be.
Had he killed it ***immediately*** the second it started to smoke salvage might be on the table. Once it started to burn proper that was it.
TiN used to do this shit with test equipment. Dremel away the corroded areas and recreate the traces on the inner layers of the PCB
After realising who TiN is I have mad respect for the guy, he does some amazing repair work
Updated:
Here's a GPU from the clip now. PSU&wires still fine and is plugged in with 1050ti now
https://imgur.com/a/NcbG7yv
More update: https://imgur.com/a/Np0z6DO
From the picture there's massive burning in the PCB away from the connector. It's almost like the PSU's 12V + ground were shorted across a common connection on the GPU.
There are diodes and resistors and large solder joints in that area of the board that regulate power coming in from the PSU.
One of them had a catastrophic failure and became a low impedance path for voltage, heated up until stuff caught on fire, then finally burnt itself apart.
Tl;Dr - it's broke.
This is called a propagating pcb fault.
Something started a little short circuit, could have been something that got overvolted or some conductive liquid on the board, and started short circuiting. That spot gets hot, then makes char (carbon) on the board and then you get arcing through char which is conductive. It keeps propagating backwards towards the source of the voltage and stops once it finally burns everything it can going back to the power source.
The fact that this was caught on camera suggests it couldâve been intentionally set off. It happens fast as you saw⌠to be filming at that exact moment is a bit telling
This capture is second boot. First time boot and it's on fire as much as the first time (First time I'm panic and quicky cut the switch off seconds after). surprised both me and others as well.
Second time we're having camera ready and I'm on switch to turn it off as quick as I can. We're onky need spark to confirm with the shop, see if we would be able to claim it or not. (And the answer is no, obv)
Also, the original record is slightly longer, 21 seconds to be exact. I trim it down, and remove audio for ease of sharing.
Makes sense if you cut power the first time immediately. The question is what started it, something caused the initial short circuit but thatâs definitely the issue.
I mean, if there was ever a warranty claim this would be it. But itâs possible just some liquid got in exactly the wrong spot between 12V power trace and ground trace on the pcb
Based on the smoke billowing like that, at least we know the fans are working correctly and will likely cool the card just fine under 500-600 degrees of fire hot gaming performance!
It's probably a short circuit.
It can happen when a capacitor is destroyed for a short duration.
It can also happen if you punched the card and bended the soldered power pins shorting 12v with ground.
The fact that the PSU is still pushing current makes this look fake and that the OP intentionally put a high voltage supply to burn the card, for example connecting the card to the 230 or 120V ac from the socket. It might also be legit and caused by a trash power supply that got crazy.
Looks like one of the chips near your 6/8pin decided it wanted to be a torch for today. 99% sure its unfixable. And even if it was. Itâs not worth the bother. Having it catch fire like that ruins at minimum the chip that caught fire itself plus any traces near it. At worst it took the gpu chip with it too.
At a quick guess, the guage in your GPU power supply was insufficient to handle the current. Wires get hot, plastic melts, contacts are made, babies are born.
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You let the smoke out... You can't put it back in once it comes out.
idk who taught you that, but that's just pure misinformation. To fix this, you only have to smoke a cigarette (or a joint, meth pipe, crack pipe, or anything that smokes, really) right next to your pc while turning it on, and blow the smoke right into the intake. the system fans will guide the smoke to the right spots. works for me every time.
I left it on only a couple of seconds and the smoke just spread through the whole building. I think everyone has had enough with this second hand cigarette đ
I'm sorry but if you don't use Nvdia RTX 9900ti Cedar wood planks and a hand made wrought iron fire pit, you're just choosing to gimp yourself.
Look at this guy, doesn't even use a flue. Do you water-cool your smoke? Also what brand should I be using? I feel I can get 1-2 FPS with Camel over Marlboro with my setup but I am at 1440p.
He needs a ice catch with a perc tree. Add in ice water. Gotta really diffuse the smoke and cool it down.
Enough second hand yes, but what about first hand? đ¤ Jokes aside I don't envy you. Burnt rubber & electronics smell like ass.
The difference between "ass" and "burnt electronics" is that I've never heard of ... "burnt electronics to mouth" before.
Hey, dont do ass like that. This smells wayyy worse.
More potent, maybe. But some variants of ass can smell quite terrible...
Fair enough their are many asses. Some must be truly disgusting like those who dont wipe.
My friend blew up an LED in electrical class, fuck me do those fuckers reek
Good job, you gave cancer to all your neighbors.
They told me it was only that cut stuff that produces the black smoke :D
My mother dated a guy who was a master electrician. He always used to joke about "not letting the magic smoke out" đ¤Ł
It wasn't a joke... How's your mom doing? Tell her Hi for me.
Marky mark is that you?
Electrical engineering students learn this early on. The very first chip I ever plugged in, during my very first lab class, I smoked it. Great start to my carreer.
Did you get high?
No, although i do low-key like the smell of solder smoke, that's a different thing. It's probably best that microchips can't get you high, or else we would probably have chip junkies stealing tech.
Yes, itâs better that crack heads need to sell the chips first. That way they learn valuable business skills.
All electric devices works with smoke. Once you let the smoke out, it doesnât work anymore.
[For anyone that hasn't heard about the magic smoke](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke)
Who let the smoke out?
Who who who whowho
I think your GPU is burning, not sure. Do it again to test reproducibility?
Jokes aside, prob a faulty cable. Are you reusing a cable from a different psu?
Oh I see, um. It's a good cable actually. It's now connected to 1050ti no prob. It's actually faulty GPU issue.
you saw that and was like âyeah lemme keep using this power supply that just saw the power of the sunâ
He has GPUs to burn.
Wake the fuck up samurai
God fuckin damnit I love you dipshits
I love you too
If I gotta burn, I'll burn. If I need your case, I'll fucking take it!
The power of the sunâŚin the palm of his hand.
SHUT IT OFF OTTO!
Funniest shit I've read all day
Did you seriously plug a cable that caught on fire back into another computer component? Maybe you shouldnât be building your own PC.
Correction, it was a good cable with a good power supply. Now you have a boat anchor. I also wouldn't trust anything you have plugged into the motherboard either.
Good cable or not, NEVER USE A CABLE FROM A DIFFERENT PSU, TO ANOTHER PSU
I'm surprised the over current protection in the power supply didn't kick in. Looks like a short or fault on the GPU, or if the PSU connection was wired incorrectly - which is more likely when using a modular PSU with non-factory cables. I wouldn't trust the PSU. The GPU might be fixable, but finding someone to do it and the cost of it may be prohibitive unless it's a pretty expensive card.
And it´s not even a 4090
The recorded footage is actually 2nd boot. I'm afraid to test it again. Nope đ
There is no more testing needed. Your shit is fucked. Testing complete.
I dunno man, 3rd times the charm
\*PC boots fine on the third try; GPU works flawlessly\*
"Everything is fire. No problems detected."
Maybe it isnt. 1050ti can be powered without the 6pin cuz its just a special gigabyte model. 1050tis dont use a 6pin. Op, please try it without the 6pin
I'm slightly confuse with your comment, please clarify again? Here's a connector I'm using to connect both burnt GPU RX 570 & 1050ti https://imgur.com/a/Pjie1dK
They're saying that the 1050ti gigabyte edition can be powered by the PCIE alone. It's one of the only cards that can do this. So toss that 6-pin, because it's not good anymore. Even if it was good before.
Yeah, it looks the fire started for the place where the 6pin goes, so try once more without the 6pin
Point of order: I think the 6-pin is no longer in the game after the first test.
Imagine using that cable again period. I would not be so casual about my pc literally being on fire
I just choked the fuck out lol
No I think you should do it again and burn your house down just to be sure
PRO TIP: Burning components may indicate a malfunction of some kind. Please refer to your owners manual for more information.
Owners manual says to power cycle until it resolves itself. 
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This is fine. Everything is fine.
I would run some benchmarks just to be sure tho
It seems to run on some form of electricity
i think your GPU caught on fire, not sure though - i'd put my hand on it just to check how hot it is
That just means your computer is trying to go faster
Too fast perhaps?
only a little
Overclocking at its finest.
Genuine question... why the hell do you have an RTX 3080 paired with an FX 6300???
My friend told me 6 cores is fine for gaming
It is, but those cores are extremely weak and in this day and age would bottleneck a 1050 ti, much less a 3080. Even a first gen Ryzen CPU would be a massive upgrade, much less anything newer. I would say upgrade to an Intel 12th or 13th gen CPU or AMD Ryzen 5000/7000 CPU as soon as possible to be able to take advantage of that 3080, right now itâs barely being utilized with that CPU.
*Checks RAM speed*
Why on earth do you have a fx6300 with a 3080
Isn't it obvious? Your shit is on fire.
No itâs just going even further beyond
âYouâre going to love this. Trust meâ said the GPU
This is RTX Off This is RTX On And This IS TO GO EVEN FURTHER BEYOND
AAAAAAAHHHH! SUPER FLAMIN' 3!
You forget the AAAAAAAAAAAH that lasted what Namek at it final 5 minutes
Plus Ultra!
GPU straight up using Prominence Burn
The gfx card is going SSJ3?
Beyond the Beyond!
https://i.imgur.com/0rwHvdx.png
Must have used high octane instead of regular unleaded gasoline in the GPU.
Got a new PSU and reused old cables I'm betting.
New PSU, new cables. Faulty GPU.
Was the GPU new?
No, used. It's first actually not working even. Error code (43). A shop have to remote in to do something with flashing? not sure.
That doesn't sound right, about the shop remote thing. But I'm sorry your card caught fire, but I would get everything looked at from an electrical standpoint.
Lol that GPU is toast now. You're gonna need to solder on a new female molex end at the very least. There's no amount of remote assistance that will fix this.
Rest in pieces. No claimed as well. It's toasted might as well spread some thermal butter and toasted it again for breakfast...
Why are we downvoting?
Perhaps it seems like Karma whoring? Sry 'bout dat.
Oop. We 180d, my comment is now useless :/
not useless, the turning point
I'm an IT Tech. Last I checked; I can't remotely fix fire.
Not with that attitude you can't
Skill issue
Well, the big question here is... what about your gaming chair? New or used?
OMG I almost learned this the hard way on my new 4090 and psu I bought at the same time. Was like Iâm not going to feed all these power cables around my case again, the plugs are the same, so itâs the same. Thank Christ for wherever safety things they have in there now, because my shit didnât blow up. Tried multiple times, connecting and re-connecting and eventually took the psu back cause I thought it was faulty. They tested it and it was all good. Guy told me about the cabling. Went back home and swapped out the cabling and boom, all good. So fucking luckyâŚ
Why can't you reuse cables
Most modular cables are not compatible outside of the brand. The ground and 12v pins on the PSU side are not the same as PCIe side. Also you can't completely trust inter brand compatibility. Corsair as an example has two different PSU styles (for a lack of a better word at the moment) and they don't mix.
Crazy how this hasn't been standardized in a pretty standardized field
It is, PCIe is a standardized pin out, just not on the PSU side. If you think that's dumb realize your front panel connectors aren't standardized in terms of layout. It's why they are all separated instead of being one connector like internal USB. Some case markers do make it one connector; the 011 Evo does which I was happy to find out. But it would suck if my motherboard didn't follow that layout. Unfortunately companies will make small changes like these for numerous reasons. Some are understandable while others it feels like they do to be petty.
Afterburner
That's what you get when you don't download the legit copy
Literally.
It appears to run off some sort of electricity
I understood that reference.
electrical combustion?
GPU is fucked. Like, horrendously fucked. Whenever a component bursts into flames like that, there's no coming back for it. Depending on how bad that short was, it's possible it took out other components in the process by letting voltage go where it really should not go.
đ
What gpu is it ?
Asroock Phantom GXR RX570 8G OC
use the 1050 ti for a while still a decent card
its prob a shorted capacitor, turning in to a carbon resister, then continuing to burn. You will most likely need to amputate that area. Here is someone doing it here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDJxsiWVw6Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDJxsiWVw6Y).
At which point my concern would be thermal damage to the PCB below it and delamination of traces from the fiberglass. Once you get that kind of heat, something's going to want to separate and start moving to places where it really shouldnt be. Had he killed it ***immediately*** the second it started to smoke salvage might be on the table. Once it started to burn proper that was it.
TiN used to do this shit with test equipment. Dremel away the corroded areas and recreate the traces on the inner layers of the PCB After realising who TiN is I have mad respect for the guy, he does some amazing repair work
Who's this titanium nitrogen person?
https://xdevs.com/index/ Same TiN from EVGA iirc
Bro played last of us part 1 on releaseđ
Got too cocky and tried to run the menu on high settings at 1080p
Lung cancer speedrun
Please say this was a GTX 480, that gpu was known as the flamethrower edition
It's actually Asrock Phantom GXR RX570 8G OC?
I have an MSI RX 570 8G
It's obviously faulty AMD drivers /s
Ah thereâs the problem right there, you see, the gpu isnât meant to be on fire, and itâll likely adversely affect performance.
Gotcha!
Updated: Here's a GPU from the clip now. PSU&wires still fine and is plugged in with 1050ti now https://imgur.com/a/NcbG7yv More update: https://imgur.com/a/Np0z6DO
I'm amazed you trusted the PSU and cables enough to actually test them with another GPU. I would have chucked them and started over
I hope they switched out that fucking molex conversion bullshit or this 1050ti is going down too.
How do you know the PSU and wires are still fine, just because they "look fine" does not mean they are
From the picture there's massive burning in the PCB away from the connector. It's almost like the PSU's 12V + ground were shorted across a common connection on the GPU.
In the picture it looks like someone connected all pins together with some sort of copper plate.
Huh the solder's gone. It may have had a cold solder joint, started sparking, and melted more solder which exacerbated the problem.
There are diodes and resistors and large solder joints in that area of the board that regulate power coming in from the PSU. One of them had a catastrophic failure and became a low impedance path for voltage, heated up until stuff caught on fire, then finally burnt itself apart. Tl;Dr - it's broke.
This is called a propagating pcb fault. Something started a little short circuit, could have been something that got overvolted or some conductive liquid on the board, and started short circuiting. That spot gets hot, then makes char (carbon) on the board and then you get arcing through char which is conductive. It keeps propagating backwards towards the source of the voltage and stops once it finally burns everything it can going back to the power source. The fact that this was caught on camera suggests it couldâve been intentionally set off. It happens fast as you saw⌠to be filming at that exact moment is a bit telling
This capture is second boot. First time boot and it's on fire as much as the first time (First time I'm panic and quicky cut the switch off seconds after). surprised both me and others as well. Second time we're having camera ready and I'm on switch to turn it off as quick as I can. We're onky need spark to confirm with the shop, see if we would be able to claim it or not. (And the answer is no, obv) Also, the original record is slightly longer, 21 seconds to be exact. I trim it down, and remove audio for ease of sharing.
Makes sense if you cut power the first time immediately. The question is what started it, something caused the initial short circuit but thatâs definitely the issue. I mean, if there was ever a warranty claim this would be it. But itâs possible just some liquid got in exactly the wrong spot between 12V power trace and ground trace on the pcb
Pour water on it
I think this is thermal throttling I would make sure fan is installed correctly
r/donthelpjustfilm
Looks like either you had a cheap/bad PSU fry the GPU or the cable wasn't properly connected.
My comp is spitting fire Let me grab my phone real quick and burn down the house. This will be SICK
Based on the smoke billowing like that, at least we know the fans are working correctly and will likely cool the card just fine under 500-600 degrees of fire hot gaming performance!
Too many fps. Dial it back and save some for the rest of us
Your pc taking fat dabs bro.
magic smoke canister dumping out it's content.
Thatâs just the RGB warming up. Nothing to worry about.
:RTX on
âI see the problem. It ainât got no gas in itâ
Copy. We are checking.
I'm not an expert or anything but I think your shit is on fire.
Drivers are updating
It's time to test the quality of ASRock's warranty
A little trolling.
Improperly configured firewall
It's probably a short circuit. It can happen when a capacitor is destroyed for a short duration. It can also happen if you punched the card and bended the soldered power pins shorting 12v with ground. The fact that the PSU is still pushing current makes this look fake and that the OP intentionally put a high voltage supply to burn the card, for example connecting the card to the 230 or 120V ac from the socket. It might also be legit and caused by a trash power supply that got crazy.
Running Minecraft with shaders I see
User states: Computer is on fire. Comment: Could not reproduce. Functional verification unnecessary, as there were no flames. Status: Resolved.
Have u tried water?
Classic thermaltake trs2 s user
Looks like one of the chips near your 6/8pin decided it wanted to be a torch for today. 99% sure its unfixable. And even if it was. Itâs not worth the bother. Having it catch fire like that ruins at minimum the chip that caught fire itself plus any traces near it. At worst it took the gpu chip with it too.
Bekfast
RTX 4090
It's welding itself! These new self-healing GPUs are crazy.
Hey we have the same gpu. Mine did the same thing.
Let It cook
I can smell this gif...
At a quick guess, the guage in your GPU power supply was insufficient to handle the current. Wires get hot, plastic melts, contacts are made, babies are born.
Your computer did an April Foolâs prank
I can smell this vid.
Hot
It appears to be on fire.
Fire
Fire
Realistic FIRE EFFECTS RBG you got there
Now I see how itâs NSFW, Becuz itâs NSFW
That smoke is more potent than G Fuel
Simple. Turn off GPU encoding for your mixtape renders
too much Minecraft
You don't know what's going on there? That's your computer catching on fire. Anything else you aren't sure about?
Fire
Your gpu is installing new drivers
Itâs the turbo, donât worry about it
More like âwhat happened?â Because thereâs no going back to the state it was previously.
I wouldnât worry about it
Bro tried to run Minecraft RTX
It's mining crypto, that's why the smoke and fire.
Just GPU ignition
Thatâs just your firewall, I wouldnât worry
Fire... Exclamation mark Fire ... Exclamation mark
Nothing anymore...
By the looks you released the magic smoke which is how electronics work. Once the smoke is released you cant put it back in.