My brother sent me this yesterday. He asked if it was a burn mark caused by his GPU or the LEDs from his RAM burned into the back plate, which to me looks like what happened. He said this is not a light reflection. Has anyone else seen this before? Lol. I think this is a 3080.
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Sure looks like it, not something I’ve ever seen before either.
I am wondering if it was the let or.
the gpu’s heat that can’t get away because of the ram sitting against it there.
And its more like the paint burned off.
His RAM has UV lights holy shit
does your brother have 4 sticks of ram?
How bright is the ram
Casual reminder that purple, blue, and white LEDs, while good-looking, emit pretty significant amounts of UV radiation. Not to the point of skin cancer but to the point of not being good for many types of uncoated paint, also not that good for your eyes.
That’s not a joke. I’d put a picture here, but I don’t have one. At my job, for example, we have a red-bull fridge with red bull organics cola in it, the red regularly gets washed out for the cans standing next to the interior lighting.
Either way, yea, this was essentially sun-bleached.
Edit: I wrote *significant*, I meant ‘noticeable’.
That was a brainfart on my part. While it is absolutely true that LEDs emit UV radiation, you don’t need to worry about getting skin cancer within a year by having some LED strips in your room. Didn’t mean to scare yall.
I don’t know SPECIFICS on how unhealthy they are, I do know that millions of people have LED strips as their main lighting at home. So, yknow.
If you’re really curious, might wanna ask someone on r/theydidthemath or similar, to calculate the actual energy output in harmful wavelengths of regular LEDs. I don’t KNOW the specifics, I just know the general ‘avoid if alternatives are possible’.
But the point of ‘get warm-white light where possible’ still stands.
Corsair Vengeance RGB RAM by any chance? The pattern looks like it, with the break between the top LEDs and the “shoulders”.
Did he attempt to wipe it off because it just looks like really fine dust. I’ve seen this before on components and motherboards just fine dust that settles in between components because of airflow… I’ve never heard of anodized aluminum becoming bleached…
I actually have the g skill trident z or whatever and it did this to my previous gpu as well
I just got a new PC and the RAM when set to white can get very very bright. And I’ve got an MSI GPU sitting right under them. I shall see what happens!
I know white LEDs are actually UV LEDs with a phosphor coating on them, not too far off from how fluorescent lights work. In fact, they *are* fluorescent lights, just not in the traditional sense.
So UV leakage doesn’t surprise me too much. True monochromatic LEDs shouldn’t have this issue.
I was really confused at the title at first and then I looked closely at the pic
holy shit wtf???
So I don’t need to even go outside for a tan? Welcome to modern gaming ladies and gentlemen.
I want to blame whacked RAM with some strong RGB UV light, but knowing MSI and how much a cheap bastard they are in terms of material quality and cutting corners. I’m leaning towards blaming MSI here.
Same thing happened to my gigabyte 2070s
Well…this is a new one.
That’s impressive. Need sun glasses to sit in front of your PC, free Vit. D
Well he has the first OLED GPU with authentic burn in!
Gotta look on the bright side, at least the solder mask nearby will be 100% cured.
How many ram stick do I need to terminate my neighbors? Asking for my Reddit brothers 😬
https://preview.redd.it/lpp9n3apoasc1.jpeg?width=376&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f1ae9f977baddf96b438da610398b02bcda55a61
That sure looks like a reflection of light and that he’s maybe fucking with you? Why else say that it isn’t a reflection?
This happened to me too, I used Corsair RGB RAM
How bright were the RAM LEDs I want to know…
Wow, my old GPU had these as well when I took it out recently and I was wondering what might have caused these. It was from a G.Skill Trident kit though but the lighting was set to purple most of the time.