GPU surgeon attempts to rescue fatally-bent RTX 4090 that came in for a melted power connector fix — autopsy reveals shorted MOSFET that killed the GPU core

GPU surgeon attempts to rescue fatally-bent RTX 4090 that came in for a melted power connector fix — autopsy reveals shorted MOSFET that killed the GPU core

It's not often we see a graphics card that is almost completely fried across the board. That's what happened with this poor RTX 4090 whose 12V rail leaked into the memory, frying the VRAM and travelling to the core in the process, killing the GPU for good. Not only that, but the card was also comically bent to the point where suggesting someone might've used it as a self-defense weapon wouldn't be far-fetched.