It's rare to see a hardware manufacturer offering a replacement for damage that was caused by the customer's hands, but it looks like the user was lucky.

NVIDIA Agrees to Replace RTX 5090 FE Card, Which Got its Connector Broken While Attempting to Install a Water Block

A few days ago, we reported an incident where a user tried to install a waterblock on his NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition, but its connector got damaged in the process. YouTuber and PC repair specialist NorthridgeFix called the RTX 5090 FE one of the worst GPU designs in the history of GPUs, since it has many bits and pieces, which makes it hard to assemble it back.

This gets particularly difficult when you are connecting the PCIe x16 connector back to the small connector present on the PCB, which can cause bro

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