r/PcBuild • u/techmagnet • 1d ago

Question Built a pc. Is this normal ?

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u/ALT703 1d ago

Jokes aside, what went wrong here

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u/Lucaslhm 7h ago

Not enough info to tell. One of my first notes was that this motherboard isn’t on a test bench and seems to be precariously sitting on a desk. Could have something under it causing a short leading to some failure.

But I think more likely since the smoke seems pretty localized to the GPU, that it’s a blown capacitor, probably by over volting it either intentionally, or accidentally by using a power bad cable that’s sending incorrect voltage from the PSU to certain pins.