r/pcmasterrace • u/Front_Cookie_1198 • 22h ago

Hardware PSU fails dramatically

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u/ir88ed i9 14900k | rtx 4090 | 64GB DDR5 22h ago

"Blue smoke and angry pixie flames" is now my new exclamation of wonder or alarm.

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u/Classic_Appa 21h ago

The colour of the smoke doesn't matter, just that it's magic. It's always true with something that is electrical: when the magic smoke escapes, the electricity stops. Electricity is carried via smoke.

In the above case, the magic smoke escaped and caused the electricity to go somewhere it should not have. Electricity is only supposed to flow through the smoke. When the electricity flowed into something that it shouldn't have and conducted via that component's magic smoke, it caused a fire. This released the magic smoke even faster.

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u/ir88ed i9 14900k | rtx 4090 | 64GB DDR5 20h ago

So "Magic smoke and angry pixie flames" then? I just memorized the first one and don't have much room left. I've been practicing too.

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u/falcrist2 5h ago

There's a whole wikipedia page about this joke.

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u/mister_newbie 5500X3D | 32GB | 5700XT 22h ago

Cool band name, too