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Still a 5v or 12v rail that should have shorted and cut long before causing a fire though. If genuine that really sucks, but I hope he has insurance and is covered. I would really strongly suspect some kind of accelerant there though, not saying deliberate - but perhaps leaking aftershave bottle or a candle left on top that melted or a noob error using alcohol to clean it that is the wrong strength - or some idiot little sibling playing with deoderant or something. Not going to accuse someone random that has just lost what looked like an awesome rig though.
 
Zeed said:
@humbug @andy_mk3 by dust i ment. KLast time I was swapping gpu to that 1080ti Sea hawk EK edition there ware dust BALLS in the pc.... Now something went HDD most likely as it was not under any load just idling. Spark ignited dust and from that cables and went on. If he had not had METAL side panels it would have torched the freaking home.

It's not PSU or Coolant leak from what he sees fire started from HDD's basket.
one more shot. Spec was [email protected] 32gbs of ddrs 1080ti 3x2tb hdd +500 gig ssd. AAA and Superflower 1000w psu

Update is... Fireman said it looks like Fire started from Hard Drives Cage.

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Would not post this here But over 20 year of building pcs i seen loads of hardware go BANG motherboards psus gpus cpus... NOTHING LIKE IT.
Temperatures ware all ok last time when i was around and monitored also nothing ever passed 60c....
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Had to replace an old (12+ year old?) seasonic m12 PSU that i was running in my current rig last week after it started throwing sparks around inside the case. Whilst try to keep all of the fans/coolers cleaned i had forgotten to check the cooling slots on the bottom of the case and these were clogged with large clumps of dust that the cooling fan on the PSU must have sucked in...
 
sidthesexist said:
Had to replace an old (12+ year old?) seasonic m12 PSU that i was running in my current rig last week after it started throwing sparks around inside the case. Whilst try to keep all of the fans/coolers cleaned i had forgotten to check the cooling slots on the bottom of the case and these were clogged with large clumps of dust that the cooling fan on the PSU must have sucked in...
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FWIW i bought a molex to pcie adapter for my gtx1080 (from ebay). One day the pc just crashed anyttime it loaded a game so i had a look at the connector. It had burnt through the wires at the crimp, but unless you took it off you'd never tell. Still not sure how it happened.
 
sidthesexist said:
Had to replace an old (12+ year old?) seasonic m12 PSU that i was running in my current rig last week after it started throwing sparks around inside the case. Whilst try to keep all of the fans/coolers cleaned i had forgotten to check the cooling slots on the bottom of the case and these were clogged with large clumps of dust that the cooling fan on the PSU must have sucked in...
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Wouldn't have helped in this case but I can thoroughly recommend Demicflex filters. Not cheap, but keep the inside of your case so clean and seem to be much quieter than a lot of the filters supplied with cases.
 
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