Used MSI RTX 4080 Super reportedly burns through the PCB during inspection
Redditor “TwistedCollossus” posted photos of a dead GeForce RTX 4080 Super that appears to have burned a hole through its PCB after an apparent short circuit. The post shared on Reddit is about a used MSI GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 16G VENTUS 3X OC model.
In the comments, the user says he works for a company that buys used GPUs, tests them, services them, and resells them as refurbished hardware. He says this card arrived from a regular vendor, and its prior workload is unknown. It showed no power draw on one test bench, he adds, then failed immediately when moved to another system and powered on.
I work for a company who purchases used GPU’s from people looking to offload (be it a gamer offloading their old card after upgrading, miners offloading old cards, companies offloading older hardware. Whatever the case may be).
We buy them, test them for defects, clean and repaste/repad, repair/replace whatever needs repairing/replacing, and resell them. Basically refurbishing.
This one came in from one of our regulars who often comes in with handfuls of GPU’s every now and then. What it was used for prior, I honestly have no clue.
I threw it onto my test bench, wasn’t drawing any kind of power. Brought it to our secondary rig, and the second the power was turned on, HABOOM.
Source: Reddit/TwistedCollossus
The card was not opened before the incident. The cooler was removed afterward to document the damage. The photos show localized charring and a perforation in the PCB in the power-delivery area near the 16-pin connector region.
The same user attributes the failure to a short “in one of the chips that delivers power to the core,” followed by energy build-up and a capacitor failure. That description looks like a VRM failure.
Source: Reddit
