Sotai RTX 5090 suddenly caught fire while playing "Battlefield 6" and the PCB is seriously melting

2025-08-15 23:24:55|Myriagame |source：minecraft skins

The hardware disaster caused by the public beta of "Battery 6" is still ongoing.After the safe start turned the PC of the novice player into bricks, it is revealed that a player in Taiwan, China, caused the graphics card of the Sotai RTX 5090 Amp Extreme Infinity to catch fire while playing "Battlefield 6" BETA, and it burned for 10 seconds.

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It is reported that the fire emerged from the closest connection between the graphics card PCB and the motherboard.From the PCB, the fireplace appears to be near the MSVDD rails that power the memory subsystem.

The player wrote on the forum:

"I want to say bored at night and play Battlefield 6 public beta. When I was halfway through the game, the screen suddenly got stuck. As a result, the next second I saw the computer next to the table and the burning smell came out...

At the moment, the main place where the fire broke out was the junction of the graphics card on the motherboard. The fire lasted for about 10 seconds. In fact, it was quite burned, and even the water-cooled pipe was blackened.

It was still shocking at the moment, and I never thought that this would happen.I bought the set machine from the store at the beginning, and tomorrow I will take the whole machine over to see what to do next.”

A forum netizen replied: "It is not the first day to burn the card for 5090/5080. Your case seems to be the electronic control IC and the peripheral capacitors are hung up together.

This has been available a few months ago, and both the official version and the unofficial version have a chance. The original design ambient temperature should not cause too much component parameter value to be offset.

But unfortunately, the life of components in high temperature environments is indeed affected, so once the local temperature overheats for a long time, the damn thing will die.”

As for the reason, the promoter @unikoshardware believes that the MOSFET may explode, which will not cause a fire, but the RTX 5090 of Sotai does have flaws.The GPU disassembly of @Madness727 shows that the memory voltage regulation module (that is, the SVDD rail) does not have an active cooling function, which makes it difficult to effectively dissipate heat.This is one of the main flaws found during the disassembly, but further investigation is required to confirm and find the real cause.

At present, the graphics card has been sent back for the manufacturer to investigate, but whether Sotai will admit it depends on the test results.If it is finally confirmed that it is not the user's own changes, but the design defect, it is not only as simple as compensation for the card, but may also trigger a larger brand public relations crisis.

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