Just some extra info: i was playing minecraft of all games and my pc turned off. I looked around to see if the power went out, then looked back at my computer. To my surprise it was on fire. I quickly turned it off and thought that although i’m no expert: GPUs shouldn’t do that.
I turned it on again to make sure where the problem was and: fire came from the GPU
I posted it on reddit since this is kind of weird, and amongst jokes and comments such as: “bro doesn’t need a cooling system, he needs a sprinkler system” one redditor pointed out this was happening in november 2016.
I googled it and turns out my brother bought this GPU around that time. I checked the affected models and turns out I was a lucky one! Glad I got some time out of it but surely i could have gotten some more time out of my setup if I had a normal GPU i guess.
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gpu having problems after a decade of use is… not surprising? safe to assume a decade of dust buildup?
Condolences my friend. Sounds like you went through a lot together and you worked the old dude pretty hard😔I feel your loss.
Although imho, going out in a blaze of glory like that is kinda stylish😎
Did you try turning it off and on?
Is there even a GPU generation from Nvidia that doesn’t catch on fire anymore?
If it took 10 years, I think it is safe to assume it wasn’t the bug that caused it to burn.
>I posted it on reddit since this is kind of weird, and amongst jokes
Hence why it might be better to post tech problems on more serious subs, I started doing it and got more helpful replies.
This was only ever with these evga cards, not Nvidia as a whole. It was a bad batch of capacitors
pretty badass it had to go burning itself.
I was told only the 12VHPWR had issues? That every other GPU and every other connector was absolute perfection?
Old VRMs can burn up at random, even at idle. It can happen with any brand or generation of GPU. Fortunately power supplies are usually smart enough to detect a fault and shut down automatically.
I have that same card, mine still going strong.
That 1080 identified as a 5090
ACX cards really were a lowpoint for EVGA quality. You were lucky yours lasted as long as it did. Plenty of the 2.0 900 series fared even worse.
Minecraft is soon to be all the 1080 can run
There was a recall program, where they put more thermal pads on the card. Did you do that or did you just update the BIOS?
Did you deliberately just put Nvidia in title to get upvotes?
This is not a Nvidia problem but a Evga problem