My GPU (r9 290) suddenly set on fire, I was next to my pc when it happened and turned it off, quickly took off the side panel and fought the flame back. I have no idea what went on, was just doing some web browsing and it went.
Literal Housefire R9 290
Angel Watson
Cooper Robinson
Holy shit, I hope the rest works... Try booting with the iGPU.
Levi Cooper
Sucks m8, were the temps fine last time you checked?
I assume it's out of warranty already, right?
Nathan Evans
RIP
Wait for RX495 or 1080Ti, use the iGPU and take a break from gaming.
Jonathan Martinez
We warned you
Dominic Hernandez
Reminds me about the user who burnt his mobo with his amd cpu.
This time it was his fault thought because it's wasn't support
Kevin Sanchez
Holy shit. Try to RMA it.
Kevin White
What brand?
Brody Moore
why the fuck do people buy amd again?
Cameron Harris
Same thing happened to my 290x a year ago. The fire ended up damaging the motherboard too, and both were past warranty.
Check if your PC still boots
Landon Smith
>implying a faulty VRM or MOSFET is AMD's fault
Iirc (got a 290X) that's where the memory VRMs are located. I suppose one was faulty and shorted out, or overheated because the PSU was delivering to little voltage, which drove the current up.
It's a very uncommon fault, and pure happenstance.
Adrian Ramirez
Probably the same reason people continue to buy Nvidia even after the Fermi disaster ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Brandon Fisher
>water cooling
No mystery here.
Kayden Hill
First of all that isn't your picture. This was posted on another website. Second the idiot shorted out his memory power delivery with his water cooling setup. Probably didn't use thermal pads.
Dominic Wright
Just amazing. Another AMD success story.
David Ward
because amada
and memes
Juan James
yeah my cpu always burns shit down by my pcie slots...
Eli Rogers
don't expect anything above a room temperature IQ here friend.
Jordan Peterson
It would if you tried to run a 185 watt CPU in a bored designed for 95 watt CPUs.
Gavin Williams
forums.overclockers.co.uk
forum-en.msi.com
either op is this guy or just wanting to shitpost.
Benjamin Parker
according to its an msi. he had it for little over two years.
a lot of people believe it was caused by a short caused by his loop.
Jaxon Cooper
Well your mobo just proved it features AMD Crossfire
Hunter Hughes
25 IQ is quite low.
Jordan Walker
the 290 needed to take an explosive poo but couldn't find the loo
Owen Phillips
Too soon user haha
Luke Jones
It is now, the serial numbers been tampered with!
Xavier Sullivan
Reply here
Justin Sanchez
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Juan Barnes
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Ayden Fisher
>forums.overclockers.co.uk
>Brand new custom water loop
Step 1: OP didn't install the waterblock right. Step 2: Waterblock didn't make contact with voltage regulator
Step 3: OP ran Furmark
Step 4: Voltage regulator goes kaboom
Step 5: OP is a faggot and blames the GPU instead of his incompetence
Noah Diaz
Lying nvidia shill.