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GTX 1080 FTW - fuse blowing

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2021/10/16 07:41:26 (permalink)
Hello guys, when i turned on my PC, i saw a smoke coming from my GPU. Im just wondering if thats normal after a few years or its because temperature / voltage? Blown out fuse is in included pictures. Thanks in advance!
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    Re: GTX 1080 FTW - fuse blowing 2021/10/16 07:49:28 (permalink)
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    Re: GTX 1080 FTW - fuse blowing 2021/10/16 08:24:40 (permalink)
    That's not a blown fuse. That's a blown multilayer ceramic capacitor.

    Those crack and fail. It's just the way it is. The ceramic cracks from thermal cycles or other mechanical stress, the plates inside short out, and a bunch of amps flow through that area and bake the circuit board.

    Time and heat is a likely cause. In a Class 1 consumer electrical device such as our video cards, you can be sure that the ceramic capacitors don't have built-in safety mechanisms to prevent further damage when they crack. In critical systems, they would use ones which fail in a safer way.

    He's dead, Jim.



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    Re: GTX 1080 FTW - fuse blowing 2021/10/16 09:42:41 (permalink)
    Thank you!
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