PC just caught fire

Viberious · 2 Jul 2021 at 20:53

Well what an evening my gaming rig just caught fire, destroyed my MSI 3080 and Z590-E motherboard. Looks like i wont be gaming for a while.

Least the SSD / Memory / CPU are okay.

Better start looking for a new Z590 motherboard.

Viberious · 2 Jul 2021 at 21:18

Dunno the case starting sparking the pcie slot melted and took the 3080 with - it i was using a corsair rm1000. Just gutted as 3080 cost the earth. I paid just over 800 for mine. The joys of PCs right.

Viberious · 2 Jul 2021 at 21:24

Gray2233 said:
Were you using a pci-e riser?

No riser just weird but costly

Viberious · 2 Jul 2021 at 23:35

It was contained to just inside the case, there’s burns around the pci-e socket and obvious damage to the connector.
Glad it happened whilst there but just the board and graphics lost. Which is annoying and costly but better than what could have happened.

Thanks for the comments guess just unlucky.

Viberious · 3 Jul 2021 at 15:47

It was powered by 3 separate cable runs only thing I can think of is a water leak or something shorted. But it’s dead so I can’t change that. Just need to sort out a rebuild over the next week or three with the new parts.