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Yesterday β€” 6 February 2026Main stream

Short Circuit So Severe That It Burned A Hole Through GeForce RTX 4080 Super’s PCB

6 February 2026 at 18:50

A close-up of a graphics card circuit board showing visible burn damage near the power connector area and marked logos and

This is perhaps one of the wildest damage we have seen so far on the RTX 40 series GPUs, but the user is unsure whether MSI will honor the warranty Redditor Reports a Massive Power Short in the VRM Section that Left the RTX 4080 Super With a Hole in the PCB We've all seen a horrible 16-pin power connector burn on GPUs, and even a capacitor pop on GPUs, but this failure seems so insane that it literally blew a hole in the PCB. Redditor u/TwistedCollossus reports that his RTX 4080 Super card died due to a short circuit. […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/short-circuit-so-severe-that-it-burned-a-hole-through-geforce-rtx-4080-s-pcb/

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