News Blown capacitor kills $2,799 Asus RTX 5090 GPU and damages motherboard

[Admin]

A Redditor has shared a story claiming that the Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 'caught on fire' with images of the damage.

Blown capacitor kills $2,799 Asus RTX 5090 GPU and damages motherboard : Read more

 

[SomeoneElse23]

Wow.

Right now it wouldn't be hard for AMD's new GPUs to be better. All they have to do is not crash, not burn, not melt power cables, and have all the pieces included that you paid for!

 

[kjfatl]

I would like to see better photos showing which component smoked. It is not clear at all from the photos that the failed component was a capacitor. It looks like something happened under the heat sink which was not removed for inspection.

 

[Zaranthos]

Along with not sucking so much power you're basically renting your gaming performance from your power company. The power requirements of high end graphics cards have become absurd.

 

[YSCCC]

When to try to shovel insane amount of power into a card

 

[Notton]

The Astral has 6 shunt resistors, so it's unlikely to melt the connector before it detects something is wrong.

But Asus and exploding capacitors is not new. The last time it was reversed polarity.

 

[-Fran-]

The second coming of the GTX590 confirmed.

Regards.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Invoking the GTX 1080 FTW.

 

[goggomobil]

Usually, money spent on gaming hardware goes up in smoke figuratively, over a somewhat longer period of time.

 

[RobFisher11]

You're

I would like to see better photos showing which component smoked. It is not clear at all from the photos that the failed component was a capacitor. It looks like something happened under the heat sink which was not removed for inspection.

correct. Buildzoid did a video on this. It was a power stage, not a capacitor, and these have been known to fail before.

 

[8086]

Wow.

Right now it wouldn't be hard for AMD's new GPUs to be better. All they have to do is not crash, not burn, not melt power cables, and have all the pieces included that you paid for!

And be available at or below the MSRP with more vram than stingy nvidia is allowing us to have.

 

[Zarathustra3612]

I have never bought anything AMD before, but GOD darns it Nvidia makes a good argument why I should start buying AMD.

 

[nogaard777]

Another case of PCG not knowing what they're talking about because their contributors know squat about technology. It's very clearly not the capacitors on the right. They aren't even swollen or lifting let alone the source of the burn marks. It's clearly the power stage that isn't abnormal to go out. (The square black box for you PCG writers that don't know a capacitor from a doorknob)

Capacitors rarely go out unless they're installed incorrectly or subjected to insane power that a 12v source could never provide. Meanwhile power stages are a common failure on high power PCBs.

The fact you get your facts from Reddit really says something about the incompetence of your average PCG writer.

 

[H4UnT3R]

Fortunately, the motherboard has Blow shield :-D I/O shields are not cool anymore :-D

 

[daftshadow]

There should be a class action lawsuit against nvidia for all of these technical issues with the blackwell cards.

-melting parts
-defective parts
-false advertisement

Crazy where people are paying thousands of dollars for a defective piece of junk hardware.

 

[artk2219]

It happens, not every part is perfect. Sometimes things work just well enough to make it through all of the qa checks, but are still defective. That said it wouldn't surprise me if they were rushing qa to get cards out. Either way, it's an annoying thing but it's why warranties exist. I have had a dud from just about every manufacturer, no matter the chipset that was being used on the card. Some series are slightly worse than others, but every component has a failure rate. Sometimes you are just unlucky.