According to Tom's Hardware, the unlucky owner, a tech YouTuber with 40 million subscribers, did not bother to uninstall it before moving the PC, which led to the card shearing its PCIe connector.

Computer repair chap NorthridgeFix posted a YouTube video showing the shattered connector and explained that the part's complexity makes it impossible to repair, so a replacement is the only option.

Nvidia does not provide any replacement parts for its OEM cards, despite banging on about modularity and easy repairability in these Blackwell designs. The whole thing is meant to let you swap the PCIe board as easily as changing DRAM on a motherboard, though that promise evaporates once Nvidia declines to supply spares.

NorthridgeFix highlighted that this is becoming a trend with the latest Founders Edition hardware after dealing with someone who snapped their RTX 5090 while fitting a waterblock. He said the board could have been saved if Nvidia had supplied parts, although the company eventually replaced the damaged card for free after he posted a rant about it, their surname said.

Now this RTX Pro 6000 owner hopes lightning strikes twice and Nvidia coughs up another replacement. The Blackwell layout features three PCBs: a main board with the GPU, VRAM, and power circuitry, plus a secondary board that handles only PCIe duties, which should make repairs simple in theory.

In practice, none of that matters if the vendor refuses to hand over the necessary components, which leaves the modular shtick looking a bit pointless.