Limited Cooler Master RTX 5080 sent for repair after PSU swap
What do you do when you install new hardware and see a spark inside your PC? The last thing you should do is power it on again, but that is apparently what the owner did here. He then assumed the graphics card had died and sent it to Brother Zhang for repair.
This card is quite rarel. It is not a model you can easily buy worldwide. The Cooler Master special edition appears to have been sold with the company’s prebuilt systems, and in some markets possibly as a separate card. I am not sure whether it was ever sold separately in China, and that seems unlikely given that the rest of the hardware in this system was not from Cooler Master.
Source: Brother Zhang
The card reportedly sparked after the owner connected power incorrectly while replacing the PSU. The result looked serious enough for the card to end up on a repair bench, but the outcome was much less dramatic than expected. The key part is that the GPU apparently was not actually dead . In the repair footage, the issue is presented as a power hookup mistake rather than a failed board.
Source: Brother Zhang
Cooler Master only sold 100 systems with this GPU
Cooler Master tied its MasterFrame 360 Panorama S Limited Edition to a full prebuilt system, and the company said the run was limited to 100 units. The card was later seen on sale separately, but I’m not sure if they ever confirmed how many were made and sold.
Source: Cooler Master
The Cooler Master cards are not entirely made by the company. In fact, they are ASUS ROG Astral models with custom coolers. Given that ASUS RTX 50 series are among the most expensive, Cooler Master is most likely not interested in selling too many of these at this point.
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