Nvidia’s new RTX 50-series graphics cards are not melting power supply cables or causing fire hazards. Following early reports of flammable RTX 50s, Hong Kong's PCM lays the blame for its cable woes ...
Nvidia can’t deliver a generational uplift on the level of the RTX 4090 unless transistors get smaller, and that’s becoming ...
a California-based repair shop has flagged up separately that it still fixes melted RTX 4090s on a ‘daily’ basis Nvidia has assured us that the RTX 5090 GPU is “not expected” to have any ...
As this melting did not cause any performance degradation, it would be good practice to check the power connections on RTX 4090s in the wild for similar disfiguration. While the 12VHPWR has not ...
Nvidia said cases were rare, but in April 2024, a repair shop revealed that it was receiving 200 melted RTX 4090s per month, an increase over the 100 per month it was receiving the previous fall.
We’ve even seen manufacturers like TinyBox AI offer accelerators powered by four RTX 4090s offered for $25,000. But disappointing is that the “stock out” will also include the RTX 5080 ...