ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 Surprisingly Catches Fire, Burn Marks Seen On GPU PCB As Well As Motherboard Heatsink

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NVIDIA has done an amazing job at minimizing my FOMO for this generation of cards. Proper anti-consumerism stuff, you gotta respect it.

Alas, the only thing I can think of at this point when someone mentions nVidia:

Yeah, that’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point.

The front fell off.

TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Hot damn am I glad that I got a reliable 4080 Super last year. Looks like I'll be hanging onto it for quite some time.

You should anyway. Upgrading every generation is a huge waste of money.

30p87@feddit.org · 5 pts · 1y

My 7800 XT is also a true hero, enabling 4k with raytracing in a lot of games and actually running with my old 500W PSU

You're not safe. Regularly inspect your gear.

Buildzoid reckons it’s a blown power stage rather than a capacitor as claimed in the article.

Nothing about these cards catching on fire is surprising.

Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Good thing I bought a 7900 XTX a few months ago

I desperately wanted one of those a couple years ago, but no dice. It was largely a paper launch in Canada. Still don't see them very often either.