Nvidia RTX 3080 GPU postmortem finds nasty cooling flaw – but don’t panic

A couple of Nvidia graphics cards have reportedly been affected by a flaw in their cooling systems – but these seem to be very rare occurrences.The issue is with the vapor chamber, as flagged up by a Quasarzone forum member, which has an apparent problem with oxidization of the heatsink and holes appearing in the vapor chamber.The impaired cooling system then leads to the graphics card overheating, and eventually failing completely.However, for now, we have to take these reports with a

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