Broken PCIe fingers are becoming a frustrating trend among Nvidia's latest flagship graphics cards based on its RTX 5090 Founders Edition design. Computer technician NorthridgeFix on YouTube published a video detailing the story of one of his customers who suffered such bad luck on not just any high-end RTX Blackwell GPU, but Nvidia's crazy-expensive $10,000 RTX Pro 6000 workstation graphics card. According to the video, the card snapped under its own weight during transit after the unfortunate owner (a tech YouTuber with 40 million subscribers, apparently) didn't uninstall it before moving it.
The technician showed off the PCIe connector itself on the now $10,000 paperweight, revealing that it snapped cleanly into two pieces near the middle. Due to the component's complexity, it is impossible to repair the PCIe connector, so a replacement part is required.
