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PCGAMESN - Ben Stockton
Jul 12, 2025
Cutting corners on parts for your gaming PC, whether it’s during your initial build or on a quick repair job, is always a recipe for bad news. This gamer found out the hard way, with this Nvidia graphics card well and truly destroyed following a PC blowout, melting the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti graphics card's backplate in the process.
As our best graphics card guide shows, Nvidia continues to be the dominant power when it comes to the GPU market, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t had some bad press of late, with melting RTX power cables becoming a PR problem. While that doesn't look to be the problem here, the end result is the same: a gamer with a very wrecked PC.
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