Not quite sure what's happened here.

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A few months back I put up this thread: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18088341 about my Computer from a certain Irish distributor... I was experiencing lock ups constantly and at random.

A few weeks back they sent a tech out and gutted the Computer (They replaced the Mobo, Ram, Graphics Card) and everything was hunky dorey.. I finally had a working Computer with no problems.

Now, i'm very anal about dust and stuff (As most people on here are) and today I thought i'd crack the case open and give it a dusting before I was going to go into my nightly gaming session, I was greeted by this:

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/7078/ssa50192.jpg

The edges are clearly distorted (In a melty sort of way) and i'm puzzled to how it's happened, I always keep my Graphics card temp below 60oC (Did this using MSI Afterburner) NO other settings were ever altered. The computer isn't overclocked at all.

Does anyone have any idea how this may of happened? I have no warrenty with them (But they've agreed to accept the machine and fix it because of the work recently carried out)

I'm puzzled?
 
That looks like it was they scraped up from behind a bench!!

Did you see it being installed.
 
RJC said:
That looks like it was they scraped up from behind a bench!!

Did you see it being installed.
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Yup the installation took place in my home with me watching constantly, the card definatley wasn't like that last week when I looked at it.
 
I'm stumped, your not running SLI so it can't be the SLI bridge, I would be surprised that pulled that much current.

There are looking at the photo some resistors, could these of gotten hot, no one else has been in your pc.
 
RJC said:
I'm stumped, your not running SLI so it can't be the SLI bridge, I would be surprised that pulled that much current.

There are looking at the photo some resistors, could these of gotten hot, no one else has been in your pc.
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No one else uses the PC but me. If i'm playing a high spec game (Starcraft II or similar) I put the CPU/PCI Cage/HDD and Graphics card fans upto 100% whilst i'm playing and that keeps the temps in the 58-60c degree range I then reduce the fans down to about 30% to maintain some cooling once i'm done.

I don't know if this has happened whilst I left the PC on a couple of days ago during the night but I seriously find it hard to believe that the PC would have gotten so hot that it would have melted a component, my rooms is well ventillated (Always a window open) and the PC has breathing room at the back...
 
:(

Not impressed to say the least. At least I don't have to have my data wiped again... i'm keeping my HDD here this time.
 
To be honest a PCB does not usually "melt" in the manner shown, in fact they can take some pretty serious heat, it does look like some pressure has been applied at those points?

There is nothing at the corner for example that would generate enough heat to have the PCB do that in such a manner nor is there sufficient scorching and such elsewhere where components reside which would show damage due to such heat?
 
But if they've been pushed in there... would that make them more seceptible to melting at those points? I'm really concerned, i've never removed it from the machine?
 
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