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 ...

As Der8auer points out at the beginning of the video, there’s no question that the RTX 5090 can be water-cooled. The question he set out to answer was: How hard is it to disassemble the card and mount ...

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 Reddit user claims their GeForce RTX 5080 and PSU haven't played nice, resulting in an unfortunately crispy cable.

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

Falcon Northwest has been unable to recreate YouTuber Der8auer's findings about the melting 16-pin power connectors on the ...

Form over function was apparently the motto for the design of the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition and its predecessor, the GeForce RTX 4090. Starting with the 4000 series, Nvidia has simplified the ...