Faulty Phanteks Vertical GPU Bracket? Dead GPU

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I installed a new Phanteks vertical GPU bracket yesterday and played a few games for a couple of hours in the afternoon and then another few more in the evening with no issues.

Today I'm playing Modern Warfare and screen goes black, I hear a windows fault sound in headphones then the monitor loses signal.

I do the following:
-Restart, boot game then a few mins later happens again.
-Update the Nvidia drivers released today restart, boot game and repeats again.
-Reboot, play a different game few mins later computer just loses power.
-Removed the bracket, reinstalled GPU and computer will not power up just the PSU makes a single click noise.
-Removed GPU entirely, connect DP to motherboard IO and turns on/works fine.

I'm now assuming my GPU is dead, I obviously don't know for sure that it's the bracket that killed it but it's a massive coincidence (980ti purchased on release and has been flawless over 10,000's of hours)

I obviously do not plan on risking a new GPU on this current bracket/cable and will be looking to get it replaced but am I right in thinking it has to be the card and not a PSU issue?
 
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Been a while since checking but under 80c IIRC about 72c recently. The case is a P400A and the GPU was not pressed up against the side of the case.
If the the pc works fine without the gpu then it looks like it's dead.

Can you test the gpu in another machine ?
 
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Complete long shot here.

Is your mobo running PCI-E gen4 ?

If so set it to gen3 and try that.

Mine had all sorts of issues with a riser, pcie-4 doesn't like the extended run, but pci-e3 works fine
 
would you be able to check gpu in another pc?
also what happens if you plug in the gpu without connecting the additional power?
does the gpu fan spin?
 
Update; I've tried the card in a different system and it does exatcly the same (stops it turning on and the PSU does a click like it's in protection mode). Using the replacement Phanteks GPU bracket/cable Ocuk sent out and a different GPU, everything seems fine so far after few hours of gaming and Unigine Heaven.
 
Update; I've tried the card in a different system and it does exatcly the same (stops it turning on and the PSU does a click like it's in protection mode). Using the replacement Phanteks GPU bracket/cable Ocuk sent out and a different GPU, everything seems fine so far after few hours of gaming and Unigine Heaven.
Glad you sorted it what gpu did you get ?
 
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