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GPU Started Smoking

Saltyyyx
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My 7900XT looks to have died while I was gaming yesterday. I was playing Battlefield 6 in discord with some friends and my PC shut down and I could smell smoke. Once turned off, and unplugged, I opened the side panel and saw the smoke in the image below. Currently I am using my pc with no GPU on the integrated graphics of my CPU but wondered if I need to change my PSU as well as get my GPU RMA'd which I have tried to contact Gigabyte support but haven't got a response yet. I've seen that PSU testers exist on amazon but have no clue what they are like or if they'll tell me if my power connector is what killed it.

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Hi and welcome 🙂

 

I seriously doubt they'd be so cheeky to try framing it as a PSU issue, especially since the power connectors do not look melted or whatever and that your PC is running fine from the integrated graphics. If they could do that to every card that gave out magic smoke then RMAs would be nonexistent. Curious to know what exactly failed there tho.

 

What PSU are you currently running?

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12 minutes ago, Potatoes__ said:

Hi and welcome 🙂

 

I seriously doubt they'd be so cheeky to try framing it as a PSU issue, especially since the power connectors do not look melted or whatever and that your PC is running fine from the integrated graphics. If they could do that to every card that gave out magic smoke then RMAs would be nonexistent. Curious to know what exactly failed there tho.

 

What PSU are you currently running?

Hi,
Thanks for the info I am glad to hear that the PSU is probably alright.
The PSU I am using is the Corsair RM850 80+ Gold

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That's rough.

 

I concur, looks like just your GPU is fried(in the literal sense). Hopefully you still have warranty coverage on it. 

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Tell your GPU to stop smoking, straighten up, and fly right!

(couldn't resist)

 

GPU definitely seems fried as others have said, I'd imagine there was something that shorted just enough to cause issues or some manufacturing defect finally caused this.

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