So I was casually playing Fallout 4 for maybe 1 hour when my computer suddenly shut down. It seemed it wasn't powering up properly anymore so I restarted it.
Suddenly smoke starts coming out around the GPU area, then I see sparkles and small flame rising out of my case. It started to smell quite horrible (kinda electric smell).
I quickly plug my computer out and start to examine damages. Long story short my computer is now running well without the GPU and the GPU itself has clear damages on the back plate (see below).
What could have caused this? Was I just having bad luck? Unfortunately I wasn't able to check any temps on CPU or GPU. The whole system is 95% dust free.
Neither the CPU nor the GPU are overclocked, not one bit.
Specs:
2500K
Gigabyte M3 Sniper
Corsair Ballistix Sport DDR3L 4 x 4Gb
3 x SSD (250Gb + 512Gb + 512Gb)
Silverstone FT05 + AP182 (white)
Thermalright Macho Rev. B
MSI 780Ti
Suddenly smoke starts coming out around the GPU area, then I see sparkles and small flame rising out of my case. It started to smell quite horrible (kinda electric smell).
I quickly plug my computer out and start to examine damages. Long story short my computer is now running well without the GPU and the GPU itself has clear damages on the back plate (see below).
What could have caused this? Was I just having bad luck? Unfortunately I wasn't able to check any temps on CPU or GPU. The whole system is 95% dust free.
Neither the CPU nor the GPU are overclocked, not one bit.
Specs:
2500K
Gigabyte M3 Sniper
Corsair Ballistix Sport DDR3L 4 x 4Gb
3 x SSD (250Gb + 512Gb + 512Gb)
Silverstone FT05 + AP182 (white)
Thermalright Macho Rev. B
MSI 780Ti