Gaming: We All Knew The Rtx 5090 Ran Hot But Not Like This: Chinese Gamer...

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It's every PC tinkerer's worst nightmare: an electrical fire. One unlucky Chinese gamer recorded the moment they first powered on their rig with a freshly plugged-in Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090, only to capture the card sparking and igniting.

The terrifying clip was first uploaded to BiliBili earlier this week and has since earned almost 100,000 views. Thankfully, it ends with the user quickly powering off the rig and extinguishing the flame before it gets out of control.

According to VideoCardz, the original BiliBili uploader has since claimed the card itself was the source of the fault. The Chinese gamer has reportedly gone on to share that their power supply cables were undamaged after the incident, and that the issue did not persist after replacing the 5090 with a spare RTX 5060 GPU.

Source: PC Gamer