Hotspot issues on the back. Does Framework need to make improvements here?

Could be the reason why yesterday my nearly 8 month old RX 7700S suddenly died under heavy load…

Posted my lspci output - I am running Linux - in the second post of that thread in case someone is interested what a dead GPU/Expansion Bay looks like in practice:

The PCI Express bridge on the mainboard fortunately seems to be healthy (also according to ChatGPT which helped a lot with my diagnosis along the way) but can’t connect to anything downstream…