RTX 5080 Owner Claims DLSS 5 Killed His GPU, But Did It Really?
Imagine this: you spend thousands of dollars on building a high-end gaming PC, with components like a Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition and a GeForce RTX 5080. You settle in to play some games, and load up an old favorite, GTA V, to see how it runs. Hearing about the new hotness, you mod DLSS 5 into your game, but within minutes, your screen starts "flashing violently" and now your machine won't boot again. You'd probably blame DLSS 5 too, right?
That's exactly what supposedly happened to Redditor /u/wax469. The tale he tells is a grisly one and his video in the thread is even worse, but it's not at all unbelievable, and many Redditors in the thread agree. You see, DLSS 5 really could have helped his GPU give up the ghost despite that it was fine for a month beforehand, but it wasn't because DLSS 5 is...
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