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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Hassam Nasir

RTX 5060 in a house fire suffers melted shroud and fans, but survives with PCB intact — scorched GPU just needed a cleanup and a new cooler for full restoration

Burnt down RTX 4060.

We've seen a lot of repair jobs around here, but rarely do we come across GPUs that were victims of a house fire. Sure, RTX 80- and 90-class cards with 16-pin power connectors melt all the time, but that's because of some internal factor — what if everything around your GPU (and PC) was burning? That's what happened with one Asus RTX 4060 in China, and it miraculously survived through the whole thing as documented by expert technician Brother Zhang.

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