I mean that's how most house fires caused by electrical appliances start, they're left unattended and completely untouched and sometimes go from OK to catastrophic failure.
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they have to wait for the auction to finish first before they can ship it
They're likely expecting a delivery tomorrow, but I wouldn't hold my breath getting it Saturday. Like @Finner, you may get the DPD confirm, but it will miss the pick up slot.
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That makes sense, it is scary though. I leave my PC unattended all the time, and obviously the 4090 FE didn't fail and burn the house down in the year that I owned it, although it could have
It's interesting to see the replies from 4090/5090 owners that would never leave it unattended.
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More people cancelling I have moved from 60 to 59 yesterday evening.
I check after 5.30, as look at the daily update - Although all they do is copy and paste the same as the day before.
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3090 owner here, 5090 waiting. When i install a big upgrade which draws a lot of power i like to have a close eye on it for atleast a few weeks before im comfortable to leave it alone, or go to sleep with it downloading something etc. Putting out an electrical fire can be very difficult, especially if it hasnt tripped the circuit and the room is in flames. Had my car boot catch fire due to a lot of amps going through a sub, luckily caught it in time, but wouldnt like to relive the experience in my own home.
The 3090 was about a month or so as you never really heard of melting connectors, when i get a 5090 however, i doubt ill leave that on overnight due to it being so instable.
Theres very few cards about, yet 2 have melted that we know of, and others are now checking their cables and reporting that some are pulling more amps than others and generating heat. JayzTwoCents also said in his latest video that he reckons there will be more to come and a lot more PSU's affected too as thats where the cables are hottest.
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Have any 3rd party cards caught fire?
Or is it only the FE?
Or is it only the FE?
The highlighted part chimes with me. As I understand it, most of the melty 4090s emerged within a week or so of being installed/fettled with. Obviously, none of the 5090s that are going pop at the moment have been installed for very long. Once it's been installed for a few weeks without issue, my level of paranoia will generally reduce.
Just FE model.
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Serious question, if one of these catches fire and burns down your house can you sue Nvidia for selling a dangerous product?
Apologies if this one's been posted already...
In practice, you would claims from your house insurers, who may choose to counterclaim from Nvidia if they had sufficient evidence
I think any card will happily melt your cables under specific circumstances (whatever they turn out to be)... but unless the Asus software proactively monitors this in real-time (which I'm sure it does), can logically make a decision based on the data it sees (couldn't comment) and will automatically instantly power off to fail-safe if it detects a problem (which I assume it can't), then I can't really see it'll make a great deal of difference.
I guess you could always split screen everything you do and have the monitoring software running all the time. Quick eyes and quicker feet (leg it over to the power switch) might save the day
6x people btw, so far so good my end, but I have a bucket of sand on standby
I think the consensus is that this one is more definitively user error. There are some very, very strange things going on with his cabling, which he should definitely not be doing.
but these guys are using their own power cables rather than the official cables that's provided in the box?
Same on the Solid: dropped 3 spots in past days. At this rate, I should have one sometime around Jan 2026.
wow you jumped 3 places in 2 days, at that rate your looking at 7 weeks give or take a few days, at least you know,
Overclockers pre-order customer are left in limbo, no que status so we dont know how long it will take, trying to figure what benefit OCUK make by not providing these details to customers