„There was a noticeable stench of burnt plastics.” The RTX 5090, which was 5 months old, burned up

Okay, so I was reading this post by Frygon on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit, and his story totally freaked me out. He was working in Unreal Engine when his screen just went black. After a restart, he got a D6 error, which basically meant his graphics card wasn’t being detected. Then he smelled burning plastic! Luckily, he managed to unplug everything just in time – it sounds like a disaster was narrowly avoided. It’s a situation a lot of us have probably worried about happening to our rigs.






