I burned my graphic card

[Linepro]

Hi everyone! 

So today I was streaming and suddently my PC and both of my monitors just shutted down. I was smelling that something was burning and I figure out that my Graphic Card was burning. It's a GTX 980TI EVGA model. It actually looks like new. you can't see that it burned but you can smell it if you smell the GPU. If I try to run the PC it's just not working and you can see some smoke comming from the GPU:
https://twitter.com/ivo_kk/status/1066808481917935616

Right now I'm using my PC with no GPU, just connecting the monitor to the motherboard. I just wonder what could be the cause of this? I'm not really sure wich model it's my Power Supply but I know it's Enermax 650W or 750W. I've been playing games professionaly and streaming for almost 3 years now and this never happened before. I started streaming with Nvidia NVENC 2 weeks ago. Can that be a problem since I'm asking my GPU to use too much power maybe? Another thing that could maybe be the reason is: My PC was on the ground on a carpet (also for 2 weeks) so the power supply it's looking down ( and I've saw in a lot of videos that they often put the power supply looking up instead of down when it's going to stand on a carpet). Do you think any of this 2 could be the reason of why it burned? I'm getting a new PC this week (i9-9900k, RTX 2080TI, ...) Basically a HUGE gaming PC and I'm scared if the same thing happens again.

Thanks for the answers!

[Ebony Falcon]

Well if u get a new pc make sure it has a reputable brand of psu and is orientaded the right way,

get something to put under the pcso it’s not oncarpet like a laminated mat or something

 

also u will have 3 year warranty on all ur stuff so no need to worry 

[Raudi_]

5 minutes ago, Linepro said:

Hi everyone! 

So today I was streaming and suddently my PC and both of my monitors just shutted down. I was smelling that something was burning and I figure out that my Graphic Card was burning. It's a GTX 980TI EVGA model. It actually looks like new. you can't see that it burned but you can smell it if you smell the GPU. If I try to run the PC it's just not working and you can see some smoke comming from the GPU:
https://twitter.com/ivo_kk/status/1066808481917935616

Right now I'm using my PC with no GPU, just connecting the monitor to the motherboard. I just wonder what could be the cause of this? I'm not really sure wich model it's my Power Supply but I know it's Enermax 650W or 750W. I've been playing games professionaly and streaming for almost 3 years now and this never happened before. I started streaming with Nvidia NVENC 2 weeks ago. Can that be a problem since I'm asking my GPU to use too much power maybe? Another thing that could maybe be the reason is: My PC was on the ground on a carpet (also for 2 weeks) so the power supply it's looking down ( and I've saw in a lot of videos that they often put the power supply looking up instead of down when it's going to stand on a carpet). Do you think any of this 2 could be the reason of why it burned? I'm getting a new PC this week (i9-9900k, RTX 2080TI, ...) Basically a HUGE gaming PC and I'm scared if the same thing happens again.

Thanks for the answers!

Endermax is probably one of the lower end of PSU name brands. 

[bleedblue]

Was it an Enermax Revolution?

 

 

[Firewrath9]

EVGA has some of the best warranty service. I bet if you contact them, they might even give you a free upgrade to a 1070 or similar. I've heard things like that. When I RMA'd my 1070 SC, I got a upgrade to a SC2.

[Linepro]

1 minute ago, Firewrath9 said:

EVGA has some of the best warranty service. I bet if you contact them, they might even give you a free upgrade to a 1070 or similar. I've heard things like that. When I RMA'd my 1070 SC, I got a upgrade to a SC2.

Where can I contact them?

[LifesHatesMe]

Enermax is the premium brand for LEPA. I stick with Seasonic power supplies myself. Did you overclock your 980 Ti? That seems real wierd that it would burn spontaneously like that. I read online that it could be a power surge, bad thermal pads on EVGA cards.. But I think that was on some 1070 cards. 

[Linepro]

Just now, LifesHatesMe said:

Enermax is the premium brand for LEPA. I stick with Seasonic power supplies myself. Did you overclock your 980 Ti? That seems real wierd that it would burn spontaneously like that.

Yeah I know it's weird, Specially because I NEVER overclocked my GPU

[Jurrunio]

Maybe the memory VRMs smoked, not rare for reference 780Ti, 980ti and their equivalent Titan cards to do this.