Melting power cables was a persistent issue with Nvidia’s last-generation flagship, the RTX 4090. Its 450W power draw (with ...

A rising tide of speculators are arguing that Nvidia's 16-pin 12VHPWR standard is designed with no safety factor, causing ...

Our post on Tuesday about melting 12V-2X6 connectors on RTX 5090 GPUs concluded with a grim prediction that we could see more ...

Redditor posts picture of his melted 16-pin power connector on his PSU, which had NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5080 Founders ...

The gaming/tech review site Dark Side of Gaming looked at its test rig RTX 4090 and 12VHPWR cable. Despite not removing the ...

There are more and more reports of RTX 5090 FE graphics cards melting their power cables, despite Nvidia's claims that the ...

In other words, at least one of these cable-melting cases appears to have been caused by user error: the 12VHPWR cable that ...

Redditor Ambitious_Ladder1320 posted images of a 16-pin power connector that had melted on the PSU side. The power supply unit in question was an Asus ROG ...

A previous incident involving an RTX 5090 system highlighted the shortcomings of the older cable design. A verified report ...

A 12VHPWR power connector being used on the GeForce RTX 5090 has melted, sparking an investigation into the power draws of ...

Some users who purchased NVIDIA's latest flagship card - the RTX 5090 are complaining of melting power connectors. It is ...

Two RTX 5090 users have already suffered burned connectors, and if community analysis is right, more may be on the way.