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bearax

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or more like burn, then it crashed.

This morning when I powered on my pc my PNY XLR8 GTX670 burst in to flame. I noticed because my rig has a cool, comforting blue light, and the light coming from the box was an alarming bright orange light (flame). I immediately powered down, pulled the box and got it out of there. Flame was out almost as fast as it started. While my rig isn't nearly as immaculate as many of yours, it was fairly dust free so nothing else went up in smoke.

luckily I had an old 5770 hanging around to swap in for now.

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bearax said:
or more like burn, then it crashed.

This morning when I powered on my pc my PNY XLR8 GTX670 burst in to flame. I noticed because my rig has a cool, comforting blue light, and the light coming from the box was an alarming bright orange light (flame). I immediately powered down, pulled the box and got it out of there. Flame was out almost as fast as it started. While my rig isn't nearly as immaculate as many of yours, it was fairly dust free so nothing else went up in smoke.

luckily I had an old 5770 hanging around to swap in for now.

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Wow, haven't seen that happen in a while, hopefully everything else is okay.
 
ythe1300 said:
Wow, haven't seen that happen in a while, hopefully everything else is okay.
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yeah otherwise machine seems to be fine. However - this is the second PNY XLR8 card I have had. The first went back after little less than a year under warranty.

They have some 'splainin to do
 
Scary stuff. Hope it was just the card and nothing else. ...So you're telling me dust poses a fire hazard? Guess I should get around to finally breaking out the compressed air...
 
noobthegreat said:
Scary stuff. Hope it was just the card and nothing else. ...So you're telling me dust poses a fire hazard? Guess I should get around to finally breaking out the compressed air...
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maybe not a fire hazard - but it certainly could spread the fire - assuming there was a goodly amount. Certainly enough to spread it to a label (had one been close enough) and then once the paper is going.....who knows.
 
Starrbuck said:
OMG, a video card goes up in flames and it wasn't made by ASUS?!? :-P
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Haha, That was my first thought as well!

Do you still have a warranty on the card? If so, I'm curious to see how PNY handles this. That's usually the fun part about "GPU Burst to Fire" threads.
 
noobthegreat said:
Scary stuff. Hope it was just the card and nothing else. ...So you're telling me dust poses a fire hazard? Guess I should get around to finally breaking out the compressed air...
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I'm assuming it's more of a something-shorted-or-burnt-out issue. I wonder if it's possible if it might be something on the inside of the card too but we just can't see that.

I wouldn't think dust could do something like that unless OP has a computer in a metal grinding shop and the dust is actually metal dust.
 
the xlr8 line has a lifetime warranty - this is my second one - first one just quit, not as spectacular. The original was purchased August of 2012, replacement was around July of 2013.

I am getting a little nervous about putting another PNY card in my machine. Everything else in the rig is solid. Corsair HX750 power supply, gigabyte mobo. Runs perfectly fine on my old xfx 5770.
 
Heh its always scary to see flames inside your case, that's how my 8800GTX died many years ago.
 
Pylor said:
I wouldn't think dust could do something like that unless OP has a computer in a metal grinding shop and the dust is actually metal dust.
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Nope. house machine. The case fans on top of the case (corsair obsidian 800) all have Modright fine mesh filters, and I haven't opened the case since I put the card in a year ago. It hasn't been bumped or rocked. Directly above the location of the fire is the radiator for my closed loop liquid cooler. (corsair). I checked every connection it's all sealed up tight. It worked without incident last night.
 
replace a burned up nvidia card with trustworthy amd card.....thats good to hear and nice to know one of them doesn't catch fire:)
 
PcZac said:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1764403
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1775171
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1771158

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Let's keep nvidia vs amd out of threads where discussion about manufactures is not needed.
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Link 1: ASUS cooler that had a known design fault.

Link 2: Guys fault for using bad powered risers, he should have made sure the powered risers where good.

Link 3: Not a card issue, the burning is on the PCI-e power delivery pins, nothing to do with the card.
 
Spazturtle said:
Link 3: Not a card issue, the burning is on the PCI-e power delivery pins, nothing to do with the card.
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I read through this one (not reading through every thread), ASUS (motherboard) support said it wasn't likely an issue with the PCI-E slot (the gave a decent explanation, look it up if you care), the PCI-E slot still works, and the PSU tester said the PSU was running fine, Sapphire did replace the card, definitely sounds like a issue with the GPU.

And I only linked the first 3 threads I saw.
 
Manufacturers of PCBs are (in my opinion) 10x more likely to cause consumer-level problems than the chip designer (IE AMD or Nvidia).

I personally have never owned an Asus card, but I've heard some bad things about their cooling quality control and power-delivery. Personally I say: if getting AMD, grab a Sapphire. If getting Nvidia: grab an EVGA.

Not a big fan of MSI, though that opinion comes from their motherboards rather than their cards.

Not a fan at all of Gigabyte. I haven't touched one in three years, their quality might have changed since then, but all I know was that I was getting a 50% fault rate on their 1156 boards and low end graphic cards for over a year.

PNY, Powercolour, Manli, etc. are generally good prices on okay cards.
 
Crazy shit man! I'm on my 3rd PNY card and haven't had any problems, the only time I've ever had something like that happen tome was with a 8800gt I had and it was from xfx.
 
Received a RMA from PNY. My request for a different card (higher or different model 670 but not lower) was met with a big fat no. They saw that indeed my first card died - and tech support did see that it was defective when they tested the rma'ed card. However they were adamant that I could not exchange this card for a different model. I have to wonder - am I a fool if I put it back in my machine....or is third time the charm you think...?
 
bearax said:
Received a RMA from PNY. My request for a different card (higher or different model 670 but not lower) was met with a big fat no. They saw that indeed my first card died - and tech support did see that it was defective when they tested the rma'ed card. However they were adamant that I could not exchange this card for a different model. I have to wonder - am I a fool if I put it back in my machine....or is third time the charm you think...?
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I would have told them if I don't get an upgrade, im posting pictures about your quality control!
 
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