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

Hecate91 · Monday at 6:19 PM

Scattergrunt said:
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 · Monday at 6:32 PM

Hecate91 said:
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.

Onasi said:
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 · Monday at 6:42 PM

Onasi said:
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 · Monday at 6:46 PM

Neo_Morpheus said:
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 · Monday at 8:08 PM

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

R-T-B · Monday at 8:19 PM

_roman_ said:
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...

JustBenching said:
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.

Scattergrunt said:
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 · Monday at 9:45 PM

Are we allowed to stop buying Nvidia yet?

Neo_Morpheus · Tuesday at 1:28 AM

Daven said:
Are we allowed to stop buying Nvidia yet?

Yes!

wolf · Tuesday at 2:14 AM

Daven said:
Are we allowed to stop buying Nvidia yet?

When was this ever the only option?

Visible Noise · Tuesday at 4:04 AM

Daven said:
Are we allowed to stop buying Nvidia yet?

Sure, get an Intel GPU.

JustBenching · Tuesday at 6:30 AM

R-T-B said:
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 · Tuesday at 12:31 PM

Asus Astral - too close to the Sun™.

Caring1 · Tuesday at 12:32 PM

Neo_Morpheus said:
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 · Tuesday at 2:31 PM

Caring1 said:
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 · 2025-02-26T16:54:28+0000

JustBenching said:
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.

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

Hecate91

Scattergrunt

Ruru

S.T.A.R.S.

dtoxic

MrNobodyHD

R-T-B

Daven

Neo_Morpheus

wolf

Better Than Native

Visible Noise

JustBenching

Veseleil

Caring1

Zach_01

R-T-B

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