It’s never a dull moment for some owners of NVIDIA’s flagship GPU, especially for one with an ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 which caught fire. Media outlets can barely keep up with reports from owners of RTX 5090 graphics cards as they experience more and more issues with their prized purchases. The latest comes from Redditor Impossible-Weight485 who witnessed a card that goes for around $3,000 catch fire but this instance wasn’t from a melted cable but appears to have been caused by a failed component.
Per Reddit:
“I was playing PC games this afternoon, and when I was done with the games, my PC suddenly shut down while I was browsing websites. When I restarted the PC, the GPU caught on fire, and smoke started coming out. When I took out the GPU, I saw burn marks on both the GPU and the motherboard.”
Gamers Nexus has wasted no time in reaching out to the owner offering to buy the ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 at full cost allowing them to bypass an RMA process. As of now, this is the first reported instance of an RTX 5090 failing under such circumstances but nonetheless it’s disheartening, to say the least for a product that’s already roughly $1K over MSRP.
Per VideoCardz:
“Judging from the pictures, we can see that a single MLCC (Multi-Layer-Ceramic Capicitor) is severely burned, which was probably the source of this fire.”
List of RTX 5090/50 Series reports:
- Bricked GPUs – Mainly 5090D models after updating drivers
- Black Screen Issues – Affecting some RTX 50 series, but also some RTX 30 and 40 series cards following recent driver updates
- Older PCIe version Issues – Workarounds involve adjusting BIOS PCIe settings
- Dropped 32-bit PhysX support – Some older games may no longer work
- Melting Power Cables – Affected small number of users thus far, speculation involves lack of load balancing
- Missing ROPS – Found in models from multiple vendors