My RTX 3080 fried itself during a Windows update last Tuesday

Was just sitting there browsing Reddit when the screen went black and smelled burnt electronics, now I'm stuck using a 5 year old laptop and can't even run Elden Ring, has anyone else had their GPU die out of nowhere like that?

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carr.xena5d ago

Same thing happened to my buddy who had a 3080 FE. He was just running a benchmark, not even a game, and poof. Did you check if your power supply was maybe the cause? I've heard a lot of stories about these cards drawing sudden spikes that older or cheaper PSUs just can't handle, even if the total wattage looks fine. That smell could be a blown capacitor on the card itself or maybe a melted connector on the power cable. What brand and model was your PSU anyway? That info would help figure out if it was a bad card or a bad power situation.

willow6725d ago

Read some guy on Reddit said his 850W Gold couldn't even handle it.