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NVIDIA RTX 5080 Reportedly Dies After DLSS 5 Test in Modded GTA 5

September 21

An MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Ventus 3X reportedly stopped working after its owner injected an unofficial version of DLSS 5 into a heavily modded copy of Grand Theft Auto 5.

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