Quote from: LostDutchman on January 25, 2014, 01:14:23 AM

Quote from: mx19 on January 24, 2014, 07:34:53 PM

So I went to check my miner online and noticed it had been offline for 45 minutes, i went to start it again and could smell burning, turned it on and the first gpu caught fire with like a torch like flame where the power connectors are attached!!! Has anyone heard of this? Why might it have happened?!

We are running 4 gigabyte7970's at around 75c and 673kh/s each In an open custom built frame. All the GPU's are on non-powered risers, could this have been an issue? we have a 1500watt psu running them.

Please could i have some advice, this is pretty scary as i also live on the 66th floor of a high rise building and it could have taken the whole thing down!!

Lack of powered risers most likley.

My $.02.

Guaranteed it had NOTHING to do with non powered or powered risers. People just do not understand these damn risers and what function the powered part plays in the whole scheme of things. Of all the things that may have caused the fire, risers played 0 part in it.

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