EVGA 2080 Ti XC Catches Fire in Spectacular Fashion

Johan Steyn said:
This is final proof. All electronics work with smoke. There is special smoke inside all electronics that makes it work. Once this smoke is released, it will stop working. You can however prevent this from happening by taping all electronic components. Duck tape will work well. This will prevent any smoke from escaping, helping your device to keep on working just fine.

But even if only a small bit of smoke escapes, it will be rendered useless. It is also dangerous, as seen here, that sometimes this smoke might cause a fire, so DON'T LET IT OUT!!!
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They don't say the phrase "smoke and mirrors" for nothing. Mirrors just amplify the smoke's natural magical powers.

Every Video-card Glorious Arsonist
 
Johan Steyn said:
This is final proof. All electronics work with smoke. There is special smoke inside all electronics that makes it work. Once this smoke is released, it will stop working.
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I've been telling people this for years, and for some reason they never believe me. :p
 
Johan Steyn said:
This is final proof. All electronics work with smoke. There is special smoke inside all electronics that makes it work. Once this smoke is released, it will stop working. You can however prevent this from happening by taping all electronic components. Duck tape will work well. This will prevent any smoke from escaping, helping your device to keep on working just fine.

But even if only a small bit of smoke escapes, it will be rendered useless. It is also dangerous, as seen here, that sometimes this smoke might cause a fire, so DON'T LET IT OUT!!!
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You should use Duct Tape instead.
 
DNMock said:
Can't tell from the picture, is that a stock 2080ti cooler or an EVGA cooler? I ask because a full on damn fire seems like it would be caused by something shorting it out from the outside (kind of like the coin someone listed earlier that exploded their gpu). Wondering if it might be a poorly mounted cooler having a screw without a plastic washer or something wonky like that.
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One of the XC models according to the post. I believe all the XC cards from EVGA are using the stock PCB with a custom cooler.
 
Aireoth said:
You should use Duct Tape instead.
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Electrical tape works better. I used a massive number of layers of electrical tape years ago to "fix" the flyback on a TV. It was shooting an electrical arc from the hole that burned in the flyback to the ground/frame of the TV. After I got it insulated enough to not do that it worked fine.
 
lostinseganet said:
As these things get more, and more powerful there is only so much power that can come out of a 120V socket before you start over clocking your homes walls... I mean what next disconnecting your refrigerator / Stove to get at the 240V socket?
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By then Nvidia will send techs to your house to make sure its rtx ready
 
Yeah, I dunno if it was the $1200 entry-level price tag or the not really huge performance numbers paired with that price-tag or even the whole frying-themselves-under-normal-clocked-conditions thing that started to sour me a little bit on the RTX thing, but I have to say...tolerant as I am.....bursting into fucking flames, that's a bridge too far. I don't even care if it's a feature. I just say no.

NOTE: It could also be the card was fine and this particular [H]ardOCPer was baked-off-his-or-her-ass and made the whole shit up.....but I'm standing behind he/she regardless if its true or not, cuz if true.....#support. If NOT true...#ballsy. #support.

Bursting Into Flames For $1200 Bucks. Not in *MY* America.

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This is what you get from asking for the [H]ardOCP discount. Nvidia is out for blood this time.
 
People don't seem to understand that they're designed to run this hot, Nvidia knows what they're doing.
/s
 
I got some legit laughs out of this thread. The fire extinguisher. Omg lol


Time for a fire sale!
 
I've been a lurker for years and finally registered to point out how odd it is that there are no PCIE 8 pin power adapters connected to the card in the video.
 
I've heard of "Bleeding Edge" technology, but "Burning Edge"? That's a liability issue.

Still, seems kinda appropriate considering that NDA program that Kyle talked about....
 
The jacket is
Divide Overflow said:
I've been a lurker for years and finally registered to point out how odd it is that there are no PCIE 8 pin power adapters connected to the card in the video.
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You can see the two 8-pin on the second picture in the OP thread. Just barely, but they are there.

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Slade said:
I personally had this happen with the 4 series cards, and more recent years we can recall the 1080 gtx issues from EVGA.



Its not a new problem that every card will have issues like this, but it is a concern when one company has this across 2 generations of GPU in a row.
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Why is there no power plugged into it? Doesn't look real.
 
It's a weird video, but I know evga acknowledged the problem back in the day. I got the transfer pad kit sent to me to apply myself.
 
What no one blaming the power supply :) Seriously tho that sucks at no time should your computer catch fire while browsing the web.
 
Maybe too soon but somebody should donate a case to him with flames painted on the sides. Just sayin'
 
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