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So yeah, imagine me: setting up my watercooling loop, everything is set up perfectly, SLI fitting in, two lovely non-reference GTX 670s with custom water blocks on them sitting in their PCIe slots, not connected to the PSU, no water in the loop yet, only two things are plugged into my PSU: the 24pin ATX cable, and the fans (not the pump). I wanted to test exactly how fast these four NF-F12s on a UT60 would go, and the two NF-A14s would go on the ST30 radiator. So I hit the Start button on my Maximus V Formula rather than bridging the 24pin with a paperclip.

Two flames erupted from my 670s, one from each. I shut off the PSU because I had my foot on the surge protector. I take out my beloved 670s as one unit, hoping that it was only the motherboard that was fried.

about an hour of diagnostics later, I am typing this up, running on my 3770k's iGPU with my h100i reinstalled and my watercooling loop thoroughly out of action.

 

On the bright side, at least I have two shiny coffee holders.

 

tl;dr: I didnt realise the motherboard supplied enough power to roast two GTX 670s. RIP.

 

On the bright side: getting a 780ti next week!

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Nobody needs to shiny coffee holders. I'll gladly take one for you ;)

 

You done goofed real hard though. I'm actually surprised it did that. I would have thought the motherboard or the GPU's would have protection circuits in them to stop so much power going through the PCI-E slots.

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Someones rich :P

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How did they even turn on with no power connectors... There is something wrong if 75w instantly set you gpu's into flames... The CPU should've overheated way before that...

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So yeah, imagine me: setting up my watercooling loop, everything is set up perfectly, SLI fitting in, two lovely non-reference GTX 670s with custom water blocks on them sitting in their PCIe slots, not connected to the PSU, no water in the loop yet, only two things are plugged into my PSU: the 24pin ATX cable, and the fans (not the pump). I wanted to test exactly how fast these four NF-F12s on a UT60 would go, and the two NF-A14s would go on the ST30 radiator. So I hit the Start button on my Maximus V Formula rather than bridging the 24pin with a paperclip.

Two flames erupted from my 670s, one from each. I shut off the PSU because I had my foot on the surge protector. I take out my beloved 670s as one unit, hoping that it was only the motherboard that was fried.

about an hour of diagnostics later, I am typing this up, running on my 3770k's iGPU with my h100i reinstalled and my watercooling loop thoroughly out of action.

 

On the bright side, at least I have two shiny coffee holders.

 

tl;dr: I didnt realise the motherboard supplied enough power to roast two GTX 670s. RIP.

 

On the bright side: getting a 780ti next week!

You sir goofed hard.

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What PSU was that?

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I wish I was rich.

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Wow :|

Well,idk if i should feel sorry for you or not because 780ti is better lol.You tell me.

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I don't get why the cards burnt.

 

Starting a mobo with cards plugged in is kind of a normal task.

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Someones rich :P

 

MFW all this happened:

crying-money-woody-harrelson-zombieland.

 

yeahhhh no not really, just spending as much as possible on my setup. This sucked pretty hard though.

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I don't get why the cards burnt.

 

Starting a mobo with cards plugged in is kind of a normal task.

they had no heat dissipation, there was no water in the loop or anything

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How did they even turn on with no power connectors... There is something wrong if 75w instantly set you gpu's into flames... The CPU should've overheated way before that...

 

yeah I thought it'd be fine as the motherboard shouldn't be able to put that much power into two cards. Guess I was wrong.

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Still, they can run minutes (without load) without overheating and when they do, the pc is supposed to shut down. End of story.

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Still, they can run minutes (without load) without overheating and when they do, the pc is supposed to shut down. End of story.

it was instant. I have an old 8800gts which I'm reluctant to put in to check if it fries too.

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my guess is that you somehow shorted some of the components with the waterblock.

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it was instant. I have an old 8800gts which I'm reluctant to put in to check if it fries too.

The point is : this isn't supposed to happen. There's something wrong with the psu or mobo.

 

 

 

 

or what ijchan223 said.

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I don't get why the cards burnt.

 

Starting a mobo with cards plugged in is kind of a normal task.

He didn't have them connected to the power supply.

 

That really blows dude. :(

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He didn't have them connected to the power supply.

 

That really blows dude. :(

I did that like 5 times. Nothing fried. The bios detected it and a message said something like "not enough graphic power".

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I did that like 5 times. Nothing fried.

Maybe the OP is just extremely unlucky. :(

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my guess is that you somehow shorted some of the components with the waterblock.

the waterblock was this: www.liquidextasy.de/gpu-wasserkuehler/nvidia/6xx-series/narrow-line-geforce-670-gtx-msi-pe-oc-detail

it only touches the tops of the chips (except for the screws, which were screwed in as lightly as possible).

The damage was to this here, (visible damage at least, this is the part that caught fire) BtzmiXwIMAAlCLd.jpg

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Maybe there was some water in the PCI connector or some liquid in the cards that shorted and burned them. It's very weird, the GPU's died but the mobo it's fine...

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He didn't have them connected to the power supply.

 

That really blows dude. :(

yeah because I thought having them connected to the PSU would make them burn out faster. Guessing they didn't have a ground to dissipate all of the electricity fast enough.

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the waterblock was this: www.liquidextasy.de/gpu-wasserkuehler/nvidia/6xx-series/narrow-line-geforce-670-gtx-msi-pe-oc-detail

it only touches the tops of the chips (except for the screws, which were screwed in as lightly as possible).

The damage was to this here, (visible damage at least, this is the part that caught fire) BtzmiXwIMAAlCLd.jpg

the bit in between the two capacitors. Sorry for the bad picture

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i guess it really depends on the cards,  plugged in my 670 dcII  a few times with out the two 6 pins and nothing happened won't even boot.

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yeah because I thought having them connected to the PSU would make them burn out faster. Guessing they didn't have a ground to dissipate all of the electricity fast enough.

I think you shouldn't have done it in the first place. Live and learn, I guess. :(

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