Nobody expects a $1,500 graphics card to be fried simply by playing an online game.
If finding a graphics card wasn’t hard enough already, now it seems you need to be careful which games are played once you have one. Reports are appearing that Amazon’s massively-multiplayer online (MMO) game New World is bricking GeForce RTX 3090 cards. As VGC reports, the graphics cards are being “fried” when playing a closed beta version of the upcoming MMO. A thread on the New World subreddit lists a growing number of permanently broken graphics cards due to extremely high temperatures being generated. The overwhelming majority of these cards are manufactured by EVGA, but it only seems to be happening when playing this New World beta.
