Broken GPU Still Works

THE OTHER DAY, STARTED THINKING. ON FIRE? WOULD SO, FOR SCIENCE, MOMENT OF TRUTH.

A creator shows a GeForce RTX graphics card cut into three pieces, then places one damaged piece into a PC to see whether it will catch fire, display an error, or boot. Against all expectations, the computer outputs an image on the monitor, making the joke a deadpan experiment about absurdly broken hardware still working. The clip is useful as a reaction to unlikely success, reckless tech experiments, or something working when it absolutely should not. EN: A creator shows a GeForce RTX graphics card cut into three pieces, then places one damaged piece into a PC to see whether it will catch fire, display an error, or boot. Against all expectations, the computer outputs an image on the monitor, making the joke a deadpan experiment about absurdly broken hardware still working. The clip is useful as a reaction to unlikely success, reckless tech experiments, or something working when it absolutely should not.

The other day I accidentally cut this 5070ti into three pieces. But then I started thinking, what would happen if I connected one of these three pieces into a PC? Would it catch on fire? Would it just throw an error code or prevent the PC from booting? Who knows? So for science, I decided to try it out and I connected this piece of the graphics card into this PC. Now for the moment of truth. Let's see what happens.

• @itvbia / 56326 2026-03-16