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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
I only learned about it within the last year. Up until I did (and found out my model of GPU had been affected), I thought my GPU died of a power surge wrecking the caps. I remember opening it up and finding the capacitors had swollen up and were leaking.
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And you were undoubtedly correct, it was very likely a power surge. But one that _should_ have been handled. But the extra stress was enough to fry the bad capacitors.