the lucky tale of my computer catching on fire

[Slayersher]

playing mine craft from a server i host that has 7950's hosted in it for folding and the like 

 

everything's fine running great and super cold ( pulling outside air direct to the computer which is currently -17 c ) 

 

alls well until 

 

BAM comp dies... 

 

go downstairs smell burning electronics ( the best smell ever from a computer room i might add ) 

 

and i see a HUGE amount of white smoke coming from my open air rig 

 

run over pull the power and run for a fire extinguisher 

 

run back extinguisher in hand 

 

look nothing i still smoking and it seems fine ... i wont have to kill more of the server 

 

 

pull the card that was on fire 

[Bonsai99]

everything's fine running great and super cold ( pulling outside air direct to the computer which is currently -17 c ) 

Uhh, wouldn't that create a lot of condensation?

[Retro Gaming]

 

How does this happen?

[Morpheus]

Uhh, wouldn't that create a lot of condensation?

you think that might be the reason for it blowing? i'm curious

[KneesWeak]

 

 

everything's fine running great and super cold ( pulling outside air direct to the computer which is currently -17 c ) 

 

 

too cold

[Slayersher]

nah running at 60 C and no condensation filter in the intake for that 

[Unhelpful]

Do you have a diablotek PSU?

[Slayersher]

1050 corsair gold 

[Bronese]

Try to restart the computer

[Slayersher]

computer runs fine just gpu died in a blaze of glory

[CoolBeans]

Short circuited from the condensation, I am guessing

[Assassin]

computer runs fine just gpu died in a blaze of glory

Just out of curiosity. What GPU was it?

[Slayersher]

0 condensation on the intake there is a filter that keeps the moisture to pretty much 0 along with the room is climate controlled so its not that 

and a gigabyte windforce 7950

[S1lentThund3r]

Isnt that hole near the VRM's?

[Slayersher]

yes i believe it is the vrm looks like 2 modules exploded 

[S1lentThund3r]

Nice, running them OC'd or anything? But regardless they are like the most likely part of the board to fail (apart from fans) but kodos on an epic display of what can go wrong in computing.

[Lays]

I agree with @CoolBeans that situation makes the most sense, honestly if it's -17c outside and you're pulling air directly from outside into the case, odds are some moisture occurred and short circuited, whether there was moisture on the fan intake or not, it makes the most sense.

[solarflare]

yea you dont hear many cases of vrms exploding on these cards .. yet the one case you do see someone is running -17*C air onto the pc. 

 

seems a little coincidental to me.

[S1lentThund3r]

So cold you could almost passively cool the damn thing

[Slayersher]

openair case the air is pulled in behind it. the moisture is not a problem at all and the overclock was 25 on the gpu and 50 on the memory ...so nothing that would put undue stress on it