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770 shorted out by insect...really?

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bob616

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Well my computer wouldn't start the other day. So I pulled the power cord for a few minutes then tried to start up and a spark comes flying out. A little flash light work and I find a burned bug on my primary graphics card so I pulled it moved the secondary card to the primary slot and everything works fine. Now no big deal I was going to replace these in sept so I moved the timing up a bit and now have a new EVGA 980ti sc in the system (was cheaper than the reference cards). But in all my 35+ years computer experience I've never seen an insect short out a board. Screw drivers sure even did that once myself. Anyone seen this happen before?

All those dang pilot lights attract insects at night I guess I'll have to cover all the vent holes with screening or something.

So is it worth keeping the other 770 for physx I think I have one or two games that use physx. I have a 5930K so not sure if a 770 is worth the power draw.
 
Have you run any benchmarks with the 770 as Physx? I'd be interested to know if it increases performance.
 
I'll let you know if I try it. I just noticed one of the fans on the windforce isn't working so I'll need to replace it before trying. The only game I have that uses PhysX is Batman Arkham Origins which I never installed (got it free with a 770). I didn't realize how few PhysX games there are until I just looked, not sure it's worth having the 770 use up the power especially since I plan on a second 980ti in a few months (I'm a 4Ker). Would be interesting to compare the 770, the 980ti and the CPU as PhysX though.
 
Actually, insects and computers have never mixed - ever. The first computer bug was, literally, a moth (that found its way inside the original ENIAC).
 
Yeah, I've read about the moth in the vacuum tube era but I just haven't seen it in a PC and I used to repair them. Of course those repairs were before graphics cards that needed all those extra amps so I wasn't really thinking about how much power goes though some modern graphics cards. Still probably pretty unlucky it managed to drag it's self across in such a way to short and destroy the card.

I meant to order the EVGA with back plate and screwed up and got the one without so now I'm going to order a back plate just to be safe.
 
Maybe I should put one under my multi-meter see what kind of resistance they have. Don't know what it was though too burned to tell other than something long and skinny. But the moisture tends to be inside, so like dry skin I'd think the resistance would be fairly high, not high enough though.

I did once have to replace some chips on some lan cards connected via underground wire when a squirrel shorted out a nearby power pole...the power company refused to pay for it, but the manufacturer supplied the new chips free which was nice (Lantastic was a great system back in its time).
 
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