Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 owner saved by their cat, after GPU power connector melts
In a moment that would make even Lassie and Skippy proud, one Nvidia GPU owner has potentially been saved from a totally destroyed PC, or perhaps worse, by the intervention of their pet cat. Disturbed from some quality time on the loo by the meows of their unnamed feline, the owner was alerted to the smell of their Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 doing what it does all too often: melt power connectors. While it isn't clear if the GPU cable was truly imminently going to burst into flames, and there are no full-on house fires yet attributed to RTX 4090 and other high-power graphics melting their cables, there are multiple documented accounts of the cards melting, smoldering, and catching fire, so there's every potential that this cat's intervention could have saved a house or human life. The RTX 4090, and its successor, the RTX 5090, might well be the best graphics cards of their time, but this is yet another case of these extremely powerful Nvidia GPUs potentially being the cause of a disaster. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS:I had high hopes for Nvidia's DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Gen, but it's not quite what I expectedNvidia DLSS 5 is "gen AI bullsh*t" that "looks like sh*t" says Dusk developer New BloodNvidia admits DLSS 5 is just a 2D AI filter, slop status TBD
In a moment that would make even Lassie and Skippy proud, one Nvidia GPU owner has potentially been saved from a totally destroyed PC, or perhaps worse, by the intervention of their pet cat. Disturbed from some quality time on the loo by the meows of their unnamed feline, the owner was alerted to the smell of their Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 doing what it does all too often: melt power connectors.While it isn't clear if the GPU cable was truly imminently going to burst into flames, and there are no full-on house fires yet attributed to RTX 4090 and other high-power graphics melting their cables, there are multiple documented accounts of the cards melting, smoldering, and catching fire, so there's every potential that this cat's intervention could have saved a house or human life. The RTX 4090, and its successor, the RTX 5090, might well be the best graphics cards of their time, but this is yet another case of these extremely powerful Nvidia GPUs potentially being the cause of a disaster.
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