Card on fire

Tue Jul 12 03:08:46 PDT 2016

On Monday, 11 July 2016 at 21:29:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/11/2016 7:49 AM, Meta wrote:
>> It wouldn't happen to be an nVidia card, would it?
>
> MSI GeForce GT 720 DirectX 12 N720-1GD3HLP 1GB 64-Bit DDR3 PCI 
> Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card
>
> The fire happened at the junction between the graphics card and 
> the motherboard. I'm not totally sure which failed. Could have 
> been a bad capacitor on the motherboard. Maybe it was a defect 
> in the connector.
>
> It had been in near continuous use for over a year.

Maybe it's time to invest in some "workstation" / server-grade 
stuff if it's going to be running continuously with little moving 
air.