My Gigabyte 2080 Ti just caught on fire.

[Jmlee236]

Title says it all. I had just finished flying on DCS and gone back to the desktop. I was about to go get a drink when I heard one of the fans in my computer go on full blast for no reason. After about a second, it stopped, and then after another second it started again. I looked down by this time and smoke was coming out of my computer. It was about 5 seconds from the time I first heard the fan kick on until I was able to unplug my computer. I initially couldn't find anything that was burned. After getting frustrated with it, I spun the fans out of boredom, and noticed the last fan was hitting something. I looked more closely and there it was. The fan wires going to the fan on the end of the card (under the area where the PSU connects to the card) are all burned and melted. I'm pissed. I've had this computer on over night downloading stuff for the past few days. This could've burned my house down if I was asleep when this happened. I'll be calling Gigabyte tomorrow about it. The card is a GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GAMING OC 11G.

[Stuttgart]

10 minutes ago, Jmlee236 said:

The fan wires going to the fan on the end of the card (under the area where the PSU connects to the card) are all burned and melted. I'm pissed. I've had this computer on over night downloading stuff for the past few days. This could've burned my house down if I was asleep when this happened. I'll be calling Gigabyte tomorrow about it. The card is a GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GAMING OC 11G.

 

Wow. This is pretty scary.
It's well known that the 20xx Series Chips have some kind of issues here and there, but this brings it to a whole new level, even its obviously Gigabytes fault. They should work on their Quality Management.

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

the porns killed the GPU

Seems like the high end cards xx80 have higher faulty rates,

do you think some insects may shorted it ?

but how could fan hit something in case. and even fan fully blocked, and got damaged somehow, damage wont spread to pcb/ gpu.

[NunoLava1998]

That's what you get for buying a Novideo nuclear reactor /s

[Stuttgart]

20 minutes ago, dgsddfgdfhgs said:

the porns killed the GPU

Seems like the high end cards xx80 have higher faulty rates,

do you think some insects may shorted it ?

but how could fan hit something in case. and even fan fully blocked, and got damaged somehow, damage wont spread to pcb/ gpu.

Seems like the cable melted and turned upwards hitting the fan above. The real question is: why does it melt? Votlage spikes?

[Jmlee236]

I dont know. It looks like the cable may be mashed against the heat sink where it goes under the fan shroud. Heat sink could have melted through the wire and shorted out maybe. I just hope it didn't ruin anything in the computer.

[Jmlee236]

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

4 minutes ago, Stuttgart said:

cable melted

hope thats not an adaptor, if a cable broken apart and just got connect back, its resistant will go from max to nearly 0, this could produce extreme heat energy to melt cable.

but yet damage in this case is only done to cable

[Midniteb0ne]

1 hour ago, Jmlee236 said:

Title says it all. I had just finished flying on DCS and gone back to the desktop. I was about to go get a drink when I heard one of the fans in my computer go on full blast for no reason. After about a second, it stopped, and then after another second it started again. I looked down by this time and smoke was coming out of my computer. It was about 5 seconds from the time I first heard the fan kick on until I was able to unplug my computer. I initially couldn't find anything that was burned. After getting frustrated with it, I spun the fans out of boredom, and noticed the last fan was hitting something. I looked more closely and there it was. The fan wires going to the fan on the end of the card (under the area where the PSU connects to the card) are all burned and melted. I'm pissed. I've had this computer on over night downloading stuff for the past few days. This could've burned my house down if I was asleep when this happened. I'll be calling Gigabyte tomorrow about it. The card is a GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GAMING OC 11G.

Since you didn't do any modifications to the GPU, it is GIGABYTE's fault.

RMA the card don't try to fix anything.

[Jmlee236]

Just got off the phone with gigabyte. They don't seem to care too much. They just said to send it in for an rma. Not one apology.

[Stuttgart]

RMA it, sell it. Im also done with Gigabyte.