One of the most horrible burning and melting cases we have ever seen on a GPU. This ZOTAC RTX 5090 edition literally caught on fire.

ZOTAC RTX 5090 Amp Extreme Infinity Turns Into Furnace; PCB Got Cooked at the Memory VRM, Leaving The PC in a Horrible State

A 16-pin melted power connector on the GPU or the PSU might not be as scary as seeing a GPU literally engulfed in flames. This might be very rare since actual fires on electronics components aren't a common thing. One user, "york4517," reports on the Gamer TW forums that his RTX 5090 GPU was burnt to death, and it wasn't a common melting or burning, but he saw actual flames for about 10 seconds. He says that the fire was coming out at the junction, where the graphics card PCB is closest to the motherboard.

ZOTAC RTX 5090 Amp Extrem

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