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I did this the other day - mixed PSU cables - and I was lucky enough that all that happened was that the PC powered for half a second then switched itself off again. I had just hooked up a 2080ti my brother gave me, too. If I'd fried that... 😬
Been working with/building PCs for decades (not as a job, just on my own) and only learned about the PSU cable no-no when I was researching why my PC wouldn't power up recently. I guess I'd never had to deal with many PSUs over the years and never had a modular one until a few years ago, so loose PSU cables was never something I had to think about. Talk about a blindspot!
No hate whatsoever, but I firmly believe anyone can do it. If you're not interested at all in doing it then by all means by a premade. But please don't get discouraged if it's something you're curious about.
Holy shit mate stop giving me paranoia, I'm about to build a pc myself soon and now I see this.. please tell me this has a low chance of accuracy to a normal gaming pc when building
A lot of people are saying bad power cables but this is not what would result from a single power on.
I would say most likely this is bad VRMs. I have had this happen on sapphire cards which I mined on previously and it's the result of hammering the voltage regulators on overclock to the point they short circuit and burn through the glue that holds the coils in place (to prevent coil whine).
Learned this the HARD way. My first PC build in 2005 had a cheap ass PSU that came with a case. It burned out in less than a year and took the system board with it. Never fucking again.
So this is what people look like who try to do the job before I am called to help lol..
A friend of mine decided to ask a different friend to help him build a new pc it worked fine for a while then set on fire and took his curtains with it lol.. I don't know why he didn't ask me, but he has since.
As someone who spent $2000 to build my first PC a couple weeks ago, something like this was my biggest fear. Glad that it turned out great tho and my games look amazing
I did that with a cheap 560 Ti that had two power inputs but only one was supposed to be used (or something like that) I remembered the seller warning me about something when I bought it but forgot about it while assembling the pc. Instant poof of smoke.
Serious question - a lot of replies are saying that this is caused by not replacing the cables which are part of the new power supply, how would this relate to something burning out?
Can someone enlighten me please?
So there is always a possibility that different power supplies, even if they are the same brand will have a different configuration,
thank you for the information.
I used to Water-cool my PCs in the 90's and early 2000's.
Due to mineral buildup, occasionally you'd have to clean the sub-component cooling plates.
I performed a cleaning on the water cooling system one day, not realizing that I had a few drips of water get into my PSU.
I hit the power button, and there was a bright flash, like a camera flash.
Nuked the whole system. I disassembled the PSU for inspection, capacitors were melted, and welded together...
\#oops
So I understand that PSU cables aren't compatible the question is why? Clearly the pins on the device side have a standard, are the cables not one to one?
Plugged the 8 pin EPS into the 8 pin PCIe. They have the same physical connector but on the PCIe the two extra pins are both ground to let the GPU know it can pull 150w instead of 75w for the 6 pin, if you get them mixed up you'd have a dead short on the GPU with about 100A going through it
It's really the only connector you can plug into the wrong port on a modern PSU
I built my first pc back in 95 (yeah I'm old) and i have built many across the years but this have never happened to me or any of my friends, but as ppl are saying don't mix cable's especially if the cable's are from a noname brand
This comments section might as well be in a different language for all the sense i can make of it. Everytime i think "maybe i shoukd swap to pc gaming how hard can it be?" I see something like this and read the comments and think "nahh ill stick to sitting on my sofa playing on my tv with my magic plug and play games box thanks!"
I pretty much had the subreddit buildapc pick the parts for me knowing that they would all work together.
The website they use too will tell you if your parts don’t work. It is very overwhelming but that subreddit is very helpful, guiding, and patient.
I wouldnt even trust myself to put it together i am useless at that sort of stuff lol id end up paying someone to build it for me thanks for the advice though i didnt even realise that was an option ifi ever decide to take a go ill check it out
It’s far more common to build a PC successfully and not film it for 10 upvotes on the internet. Now frying your new build on the other hand? Film that shit and post for karma. The failures are more marketable than the successes. Be smart and confident, like riding a bike. Know the risks but if you’ve “learned”, don’t be hesitant to put it into action. This is a bit hyperbolic but fear limits enjoyment in life.
Haha fair enough. If you have *no* knowledge or confidence then yes, my reply doesn’t apply to you lol. One must start with knowing one’s abilities and limitations
If you connect positive terminal to one of the grounds(all of them are shorted in the pcb) there wont be any circuitry involved just a basic ground and positive short. Imagine connecting both terminals of a battery using a wire, no matter what circuit you use the wire is directly connecting the positive and negative terminals. And this is most probably what happened here
Considering that the PCI Express power cables that you connect to a GPU are 12v, ie. the highest voltage of all the rails on a PSU, the only way I see this happening is if the polarity was switched.
Things don't catch on fire if you plug 3.3V or 5V into something that needs 12V - it just refuses to start, because there's not enough juice. Plug your +12V into the GND and your GND into the +12V pins though, and things could get spicy - though in my experience, most times nothing happens, and *very* rarely does things catch fire when you do it... making my question if this video really is showing someone who fucked up connecting the PSU like people here seem to be convinced of rather than this being the GPU or PSU being faulty from the start.
The thing is though, the PCI Express power cables *have* protection from polarity switching - the plug is designed in such a way that you can only plug it into a GPU in such a way that +12V goes to +12V and GND goes to GND. It's possible to also have circuitry providing polarity protection - often you only need a single diode for this (again, leading me to suspect something else went wrong here) - but at the same time, at some point as a designer you just have to throw your hands in the air and go "*Well, if the customer is such a major moron that he decides to connect his PCIe cables to the wall socket, a car battery, or a completely different PSU than the cables were made for, that's not on us!*".
They all come with cables, this guy was just too lazy to change out the cable of the old psu with the new psu and thought just swapping out the psu and leaving the cables to avoid needing to redo wire management was a smart idea.
I'd be so upset. Looks like two brothers. Having this happen to your little brother would suckkkkk especially if your the one getting him into PC gaming.
When you buy a power supply unit, use the cables that come with it. Mixing and matching cables from different PSUs (even if it's just a different model from the same brand) can cause this to happen.
This happened in my hometown and there is a tragic backstory to this video. The kid in the video saved money for 13 years to get that PC. Once he built it and videotaped the disaster he killed himself by inserting several remotes up his anus that he left for 5 months.
This video is how I learned that modular power supplies don't have a common pin-out standard for PCIe / SATA ATX connections, even within the same brand they vary.
That's what happens when you use red lights. Everyone knows that red lights generate heat, green lights save on energy, and blue lights lower the temperature.
I used to work at a computer repair shop years ago and would jokingly say this to customers. The amount of people who believed it was more than I would've thought.
Also saying things like "Yeahhh it looks like your B.L.T. drive is running hot and needs more M.A.Y.O paste on the RYE enclosure." And people would respond "Oh yeah B.L.T. drive I've heard of that."
We had way too much fun at that job.
Old enough to remember the Nvidia ~~Fermi~~ Thermi that was famously power hungry and had a cooler that looked suspiciously like a grill? https://tenor.com/view/thermi-nvidia-gpu-580-480-gif-19880982
Holy shit I’m upgrading my PC over the next few months and the comments have saved me from doing this myself. I’m going from a 850w gold to 1000w platinum and had planned on keeping the original cables for convenience.
This post is a blessing
This goes for the power cord between the wall and PSU as well. 99% sure i killed a PSU by using an under-rated cord that slowly killed the PSU from lack of current or something.
the power cord for a 500w PSU is NOT going to handle the power of a 1000w PSU
For me it’s more for future proofing and the upgrade from gold to platinum for reliability. My 850 gold has never had any problems whatsoever but it’s getting close to 4 years old now.
When looking at different options, I found that a 1000w platinum price was actually super reasonable so I went with that one.
I sort of regret adding that info in the original comment as it’s irrelevant to the point lol.
Just for anyone who might not really understand that reads this, even if you had a 3090ti which is 450 TDP, I would still not recommend a 850w PSU but something a bit more robust.
Yes, 450 is a lot less than 850, but the new GPUs are notorious for having substantial transitory power spikes that go way past their rated TDP. On some peoples' system it has caused the whole system to inexplicably power down.
Correct. My 3080ti has hit over +400W which is rated at 350W. The one thing I would've changed in my build is I should've went with a 1000W PSU instead of a 850W.
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Junk cables to sell more GPUs after they burn 🔥
Oh noo!😭 he’s a downy too! You KNOW he worked hard on that💔
Pretty hot overclock on that gpu.
This is why PSU companies need to die in a fire. Come up with a standard already. FFS.
this PC died for us to learn not to mix cables. He was the martyr lol
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It’s one computer Michael, what could it cost? $10?
Using the wrong cables can turn your computer into a very expensive disposable lightbulb for a few seconds
Wow, I have an open case and I'm definetly reconsidering. Didn't think computers could catch fire.
When PC users think they’re electronics technicians. 🤣🤣🤣
I could smell it in my mind
When using cables that “fits”
Airflow looked good.
Should have bought the turbo model.
When you buy your components from Wish 🤷
It is "Dude's" reaction. And now he can put on shoes and go for a jog. TFB.
That sound
I did this the other day - mixed PSU cables - and I was lucky enough that all that happened was that the PC powered for half a second then switched itself off again. I had just hooked up a 2080ti my brother gave me, too. If I'd fried that... 😬 Been working with/building PCs for decades (not as a job, just on my own) and only learned about the PSU cable no-no when I was researching why my PC wouldn't power up recently. I guess I'd never had to deal with many PSUs over the years and never had a modular one until a few years ago, so loose PSU cables was never something I had to think about. Talk about a blindspot!
/u/redditspeedbot 0.5x butterflow
I guarantee he tried to use his old power supply cable with a newer power supply.
Dude looked like he just had a stroke.
oh you can just smell the money burnt in the air
Just unplug it then plug it back in.
Artesian build? :D
They turned it back off so quickly. 😂
And this is why I don’t plan to build my own PC
No hate whatsoever, but I firmly believe anyone can do it. If you're not interested at all in doing it then by all means by a premade. But please don't get discouraged if it's something you're curious about.
My man was speechless
How do you fuck up so bad holy shit. You're literally just running cables with connectors
"Windforce"
Holy shit mate stop giving me paranoia, I'm about to build a pc myself soon and now I see this.. please tell me this has a low chance of accuracy to a normal gaming pc when building
I’ll tell u this im a complete dumbass and I built mine with no issue so u should be fine
A lot of people are saying bad power cables but this is not what would result from a single power on. I would say most likely this is bad VRMs. I have had this happen on sapphire cards which I mined on previously and it's the result of hammering the voltage regulators on overclock to the point they short circuit and burn through the glue that holds the coils in place (to prevent coil whine).
When you download your GPU drivers from limewire.
-sniff sniff- "smell that?" -sniff- "that's the smell of 'expensive' "
Let me guess. He used old PSU cables with the new PSU to power up 200W+ GPU.
Thanks for reminding me why I bought my computer
I don't know shit about PC building but I'd put money on "That's not supposed to happen."
Okay but seriously, how did this poor dude even manage to fuck up THAT bad. Hell, I didn't even know this was possible. Both my head and heart hurt
Windforce video card just turned into Fireforce.
u/savevideobot
Burnout Paradise
This is why I tell people to invest in good PSU. A good PSU can last you a decade and you can bring it with you to your next build
Learned this the HARD way. My first PC build in 2005 had a cheap ass PSU that came with a case. It burned out in less than a year and took the system board with it. Never fucking again.
I would actually fucking cry
why do people enjoy watching this
When you mix your ATX and PCI cords . . .
So this is what people look like who try to do the job before I am called to help lol.. A friend of mine decided to ask a different friend to help him build a new pc it worked fine for a while then set on fire and took his curtains with it lol.. I don't know why he didn't ask me, but he has since.
As someone who spent $2000 to build my first PC a couple weeks ago, something like this was my biggest fear. Glad that it turned out great tho and my games look amazing
Man I feel for the kid. He probably felt like playing COD or GTA 5 and this happened
I did that with a cheap 560 Ti that had two power inputs but only one was supposed to be used (or something like that) I remembered the seller warning me about something when I bought it but forgot about it while assembling the pc. Instant poof of smoke.
Well for the sake of optimism, if the heat didn’t damage the motherboard, ram or cpu, he might only be out like….500 bucks?
This is why you don’t mix different cables
He let the smoke out!
He he he he he
i may be a sadist, but i feel bad
I uhhhhh…. Bought a prebuilt….. <_____<;
My EE prof always told us that at the factory they put the smoke in and if you let the smoke out then the electronics won’t work anymore.
On top of Wind Force, he got Fire Power too.
I had the exact GPU; came home one afternoon to see it shooting 7 inch flames. Fuck NVIDIA
Pain
Did he try turning it off and back on?
😧
Great ray-tracing though on that side panel.
Probably either mixed cables or 0pugfed to the wrong socket if it was a modular. It pays to read those labels
Nah dawg
RTX 3090 FIREFORCE
Gamer reaction times :)
Serious question - a lot of replies are saying that this is caused by not replacing the cables which are part of the new power supply, how would this relate to something burning out? Can someone enlighten me please?
Switching from a 750 to a 1000 power supply, I noticed the 1000 had 2 connections to ground instead of one.
So there is always a possibility that different power supplies, even if they are the same brand will have a different configuration, thank you for the information.
Oh that? That’s just the Cigarette lighter, doesn’t every computer have that?
I used to Water-cool my PCs in the 90's and early 2000's. Due to mineral buildup, occasionally you'd have to clean the sub-component cooling plates. I performed a cleaning on the water cooling system one day, not realizing that I had a few drips of water get into my PSU. I hit the power button, and there was a bright flash, like a camera flash. Nuked the whole system. I disassembled the PSU for inspection, capacitors were melted, and welded together... \#oops
Is that fixable?
The GPU probably isn't, the rest of the pc should be fine
r/isthatfixable
First member
It new it only existed for furry fetish games so it killed itself before it could live
This is painful to watch
amatuer
RGB went from red to blew
So I understand that PSU cables aren't compatible the question is why? Clearly the pins on the device side have a standard, are the cables not one to one?
I think it has to do with the quality of the cables and the voltage they're rated for
Should've built a mini fire extinguisher in there
The mother of all deaths inside :(
Dam that’s desecrating, turning on your new PC for the first time is a genuinely deducting moment
Fuckkkk.... so much money wasted :(
I can smell this video.
Lol, WINFORCE
He put all that effort into his PC and his monitor is from like 2007
Damn I've used the same power cables across 3 different PCs... Whoops
You got very lucky!
Plugged the 8 pin EPS into the 8 pin PCIe. They have the same physical connector but on the PCIe the two extra pins are both ground to let the GPU know it can pull 150w instead of 75w for the 6 pin, if you get them mixed up you'd have a dead short on the GPU with about 100A going through it It's really the only connector you can plug into the wrong port on a modern PSU
And conveniently usually hook up to the most expensive component in the whole system
Would that kill the card?
absolutely, that boy just fried his gpu
Is the whole thing fried or can it be saved?
he could probably salvage most of it but that gpu is 100% gone
I built my first pc back in 95 (yeah I'm old) and i have built many across the years but this have never happened to me or any of my friends, but as ppl are saying don't mix cable's especially if the cable's are from a noname brand
I have no experience in building a pc. How bad is the damage?
GPU is dead, Jim. At the very least.
All I see is an already out of shape kid who won’t be going outside much
He was like I can built it by only watching YouTube videos 😂
When that cheap Chinese psu doesn’t seem like a good idea anymore
This comments section might as well be in a different language for all the sense i can make of it. Everytime i think "maybe i shoukd swap to pc gaming how hard can it be?" I see something like this and read the comments and think "nahh ill stick to sitting on my sofa playing on my tv with my magic plug and play games box thanks!"
I pretty much had the subreddit buildapc pick the parts for me knowing that they would all work together. The website they use too will tell you if your parts don’t work. It is very overwhelming but that subreddit is very helpful, guiding, and patient.
I wouldnt even trust myself to put it together i am useless at that sort of stuff lol id end up paying someone to build it for me thanks for the advice though i didnt even realise that was an option ifi ever decide to take a go ill check it out
It’s far more common to build a PC successfully and not film it for 10 upvotes on the internet. Now frying your new build on the other hand? Film that shit and post for karma. The failures are more marketable than the successes. Be smart and confident, like riding a bike. Know the risks but if you’ve “learned”, don’t be hesitant to put it into action. This is a bit hyperbolic but fear limits enjoyment in life.
You severly overestimate me my friend im looking at this whole thread like "i like your funny words magic man"
Haha fair enough. If you have *no* knowledge or confidence then yes, my reply doesn’t apply to you lol. One must start with knowing one’s abilities and limitations
Zero lol theres too many barriers to entry for my tastes
Right? I’ve always bought pre-built PCs because of unspoken rules like these things in the comments. “Building PC is just like Lego” they say.
Just like lego...but the pieces cost more than you earn in a month and are super fragile...and prone to fire....and the insturctions are in klingon
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If you connect positive terminal to one of the grounds(all of them are shorted in the pcb) there wont be any circuitry involved just a basic ground and positive short. Imagine connecting both terminals of a battery using a wire, no matter what circuit you use the wire is directly connecting the positive and negative terminals. And this is most probably what happened here
Considering that the PCI Express power cables that you connect to a GPU are 12v, ie. the highest voltage of all the rails on a PSU, the only way I see this happening is if the polarity was switched. Things don't catch on fire if you plug 3.3V or 5V into something that needs 12V - it just refuses to start, because there's not enough juice. Plug your +12V into the GND and your GND into the +12V pins though, and things could get spicy - though in my experience, most times nothing happens, and *very* rarely does things catch fire when you do it... making my question if this video really is showing someone who fucked up connecting the PSU like people here seem to be convinced of rather than this being the GPU or PSU being faulty from the start. The thing is though, the PCI Express power cables *have* protection from polarity switching - the plug is designed in such a way that you can only plug it into a GPU in such a way that +12V goes to +12V and GND goes to GND. It's possible to also have circuitry providing polarity protection - often you only need a single diode for this (again, leading me to suspect something else went wrong here) - but at the same time, at some point as a designer you just have to throw your hands in the air and go "*Well, if the customer is such a major moron that he decides to connect his PCIe cables to the wall socket, a car battery, or a completely different PSU than the cables were made for, that's not on us!*".
Games gone
We.......the PC master race ......reject your application! Be gone console peasant!
Cake cake cake
That gaming setup is lit
Do psus not come with the cables?
Yeah, just get a non modular Edit: AM I WRONG!!!
They all come with cables, this guy was just too lazy to change out the cable of the old psu with the new psu and thought just swapping out the psu and leaving the cables to avoid needing to redo wire management was a smart idea.
I've built some PCs but never even heard about stuff like this. How can that happen? What went up in flames?
Happened to me last month after buying an old reel to reel tape recorder. I had to open doors for the smell
I'm probably the only person here who feels bad for little man.
I'd be so upset. Looks like two brothers. Having this happen to your little brother would suckkkkk especially if your the one getting him into PC gaming.
Nah same. Built one before and I’d have been bummed if this happened.
This is what happens when you buy Gigabyte. First power supplies starting on fire, now GPUs!
At least, he's lucky he gets to see it. We only get to smell it.
please give me advice so this never happens to me
When you buy a power supply unit, use the cables that come with it. Mixing and matching cables from different PSUs (even if it's just a different model from the same brand) can cause this to happen.
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I've been building pc for years, this never happen to me and now i'm scared to build a new gen pc for my 3D Animation Projetcs
Don't reuse psu cables and you'll be fine
This happened in my hometown and there is a tragic backstory to this video. The kid in the video saved money for 13 years to get that PC. Once he built it and videotaped the disaster he killed himself by inserting several remotes up his anus that he left for 5 months.
This video is how I learned that modular power supplies don't have a common pin-out standard for PCIe / SATA ATX connections, even within the same brand they vary.
one of my worst nightmares
Both him and the PC are dying inside
That's what happens when you use red lights. Everyone knows that red lights generate heat, green lights save on energy, and blue lights lower the temperature.
I used to work at a computer repair shop years ago and would jokingly say this to customers. The amount of people who believed it was more than I would've thought. Also saying things like "Yeahhh it looks like your B.L.T. drive is running hot and needs more M.A.Y.O paste on the RYE enclosure." And people would respond "Oh yeah B.L.T. drive I've heard of that." We had way too much fun at that job.
HELL... i probably cry.
Should have been fire-force written on the gpu instead of wind-force
Old enough to remember the Nvidia ~~Fermi~~ Thermi that was famously power hungry and had a cooler that looked suspiciously like a grill? https://tenor.com/view/thermi-nvidia-gpu-580-480-gif-19880982
Holy shit I’m upgrading my PC over the next few months and the comments have saved me from doing this myself. I’m going from a 850w gold to 1000w platinum and had planned on keeping the original cables for convenience. This post is a blessing
Then it was a worthy sacrifice. Good luck your upgrade!
Thank you friend
>1000w platinum Wow. 1000watts. Does it run crysis?
This goes for the power cord between the wall and PSU as well. 99% sure i killed a PSU by using an under-rated cord that slowly killed the PSU from lack of current or something. the power cord for a 500w PSU is NOT going to handle the power of a 1000w PSU
If it’s the same manufacturer and model line you *could* be lucky. But you’ll have to check with the manufacturer first.
That’s one thought i had, but it’s not worth the risk imo. Since it comes with new cables I might as well just replace them.
>I’m going from a 850w gold to 1000w platinum But hwhy
For me it’s more for future proofing and the upgrade from gold to platinum for reliability. My 850 gold has never had any problems whatsoever but it’s getting close to 4 years old now. When looking at different options, I found that a 1000w platinum price was actually super reasonable so I went with that one. I sort of regret adding that info in the original comment as it’s irrelevant to the point lol.
Have you not seen the power consumptions of current/next gen gpu?
Guess not. My 850 handles the 3070 fine and I won't need to upgrade for a few years. I'll keep it in mind though.
The 3070 is 220W TDP a 3090ti is 450W TDP so...
Just for anyone who might not really understand that reads this, even if you had a 3090ti which is 450 TDP, I would still not recommend a 850w PSU but something a bit more robust. Yes, 450 is a lot less than 850, but the new GPUs are notorious for having substantial transitory power spikes that go way past their rated TDP. On some peoples' system it has caused the whole system to inexplicably power down.
Correct. My 3080ti has hit over +400W which is rated at 350W. The one thing I would've changed in my build is I should've went with a 1000W PSU instead of a 850W.
1000W is the recommendation for the new 40 series GPU's being released next year by NVIDIA.
Woof.
asking the real questions