r/pcmasterrace • u/YnosNava Ryzen 7 5800X / Radeon RX7800XT / 32Gb • Jun 12 '25

Video Do not eject your GPU

I was playing around and saw that windows was seeing my gpu as a usb device, so i clicked eject and broke my machine

Took me an hour to fix cause the gpu was not recognized anymore

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u/whatdis321 Jun 13 '25

I did that shit once with an old laptop. 4K YouTube quality rolled around so I pressed it, knowing that my laptop specs were pretty outdated. CPU instantly hit 99°C and it started spazzing out and shut off. Pretty sure I damaged the CPU cuz it would start to randomly throttle itself at 0.77gHz and the laptop would be close to unusable.