Unlucky Owner of ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 OC Reports "Caught on Fire" Incident

[Hecate91]

Now I'm not that petty; but this, this made me chuckle.

As for the actual situation itself, can the 50 series launch get any worse? We might as well start making a bingo card for this.

Not sure I'd call it being petty, Nvidia has been having driver issues with the 50 series as well, but IIRC it's not even a news topic here.
But there are probably enough issues to fill at least half of a bingo card.

 

[Scattergrunt]

Not sure I'd call it being petty, Nvidia has been having driver issues with the 50 series as well, but IIRC it's not even a news topic here.
But there are probably enough issues to fill at least half of a bingo card.

Oh no, I understand the sentiment. I just don't necessarily agree with it as its definitely a vocal minority who are saying that.. I might cook up a bingo card for AMD / NVIDIA GPU launches. Could be fun.

All jokes aside, this IS objectively the worst NV launch since first generation Fermi. I kinda thought they would be past such blunders, but here we are I suppose.

Oh absolutely agreed. I wasn't there for first gen Fermi personally but I can definitely attest to the fact that this is by far the worst GPU launch I have seen, period. I think I might be giving Intel and AMD a bit of a pass since they had some bad launches too, I just wouldn't consider them anywhere near this.

 

[Ruru]

All jokes aside, this IS objectively the worst NV launch since first generation Fermi. I kinda thought they would be past such blunders, but here we are I suppose.

Fermi wasn't even bad, 480 just ran hot and that was practically its only problem.

 

[dtoxic]

Lets see how many will blame the user, instead of this clearly faulty power connector.

Of course it's user error,giving money to nvidia for a badly designed product it is user error,cant blame nvidia on that one, no one foces us do buy a bad product with clear as day bad design in terms of connector,power delivery etc...

 

[MrNobodyHD]

"premium" product. Steve from GN is gonna have a field day with content on this launch.

 

[R-T-B]

Call the plastic surgeries! Urgent!!

RIP 630€ ASUS mainboard. That shiny, shiny ASUS mainboard needs now a new replacement plastics.

Does ASUS now use flame retarding plastics now on their shiny 630€ ASUS - ROG - HERO mainboards? Which costs 4 times of an usual mainboard? (3 times is up to debate)

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Darn I really wanted a piece of that flame remealing plastic...

It should be less than 1% (which is the going failure rate for almost every product).

Not really. Some cpus (earlier ryzens in particular come to mind) have failure rates as high as 3-4%, and they are one of the less failure prone parts honestly.

Oh no, I understand the sentiment. I just don't necessarily agree with it as its definitely a vocal minority who are saying that.. I might cook up a bingo card for AMD / NVIDIA GPU launches. Could be fun.


Oh absolutely agreed. I wasn't there for first gen Fermi personally but I can definitely attest to the fact that this is by far the worst GPU launch I have seen, period. I think I might be giving Intel and AMD a bit of a pass since they had some bad launches too, I just wouldn't consider them anywhere near this.

I still think Intels alchemist was a bit worse but well, they had a reason, and fixed it (mostly)

 

[Daven]

Are we allowed to stop buying Nvidia yet?

 

[Neo_Morpheus]

Are we allowed to stop buying Nvidia yet?

Yes!

 

[wolf]

Are we allowed to stop buying Nvidia yet?

When was this ever the only option?

 

[Visible Noise]

Are we allowed to stop buying Nvidia yet?

Sure, get an Intel GPU.

 

[JustBenching]

Not really. Some cpus (earlier ryzens in particular come to mind) have failure rates as high as 3-4%, and they are one of the less failure prone parts honestly.

Oh well, we can give them a pass (and the x3d going boom a couple of years back), after all amd loves us while nvidia is greedy etc.

 

[Veseleil]

Asus Astral - too close to the Sun™.

 

[Caring1]

Lets see how many will blame the user, instead of this clearly faulty power connector.

One of the few cards with load leveling and here you are repeating a generalization that is yet to be proven.

Edited to be less harsh

 

[Zach_01]

One of the few cards with load leveling and here you are repeating a generalization that is yet to be proven.

Edited to be less harsh

Does it have load leveling though?
I think only has a per-pin monitoring

 

[R-T-B]

Oh well, we can give them a pass (and the x3d going boom a couple of years back), after all amd loves us while nvidia is greedy etc.

Intel has had high failure rates for certainn gens too. This isn't a fanboyable comment, shit happens and everyone is greedy.