Anyone know why my 970 caught fire?

[Devlish]

My Galax 970 died sob. Playing PUBG, no overclock or doing anything overly exciting - two months out of warranty (sheesh) - sudden pop and hiss. Anyone tell me what melted here?

 

[Devlish]

Thanks for the replies. Here is the reverse of the card, its seems the bottom half of this one is a mess, but the top looks OK.

 

[Devlish]

Hah yup, seems that way gah.

This is the kind of thing that immediately comes to mind when I read about miners with multiple gpus in multiple machines running constantly.

Is it even feasible to mine with a 970? I cant imagine you would make more than the electricity cost. Anyway, it seems too easy an excuse to say every GPU that blows now is down to mining, although I suspect we'll be hearing it more often now.

 

[Devlish]

Cheers, contacted Galax and their response was 'Haha your warranty expired two months ago'. Doesnt particularly make me want to buy their products again, but there you go. If you are in the business of graphics cards these days it's a happy time.

 

[Devlish]

No way? They actually put "Haha" in ?

That is my interpretation. What they actually wrote is almost as funny. Two months out of warranty.

To understand the reason and provide an analysis, we cannot check it through email and need to collect the card for factory check.

However, your card was out of warranty long time ago, we cannot do that.