Nvidia's RTX 5090 power cables may be doomed to burn
A rising tide of speculators are arguing that Nvidia's 16-pin 12VHPWR standard is designed with no safety factor, causing ...
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It's not just the GeForce RTX 5090... we've now got melting connectors on the RTX 5080
Redditor posts picture of his melted 16-pin power connector on his PSU, which had NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5080 Founders ...
Does the Nvidia RTX 5090 have a cable melting problem? It's complicated - but you probably don’t need to panic
Remember the Nvidia RTX 4090 cable-melting crisis? Claims that it’s back for the RTX 5090 might just be a load of hot air.
Official RTX 4090 power cable found melted by reviewer 2 years later — card functioned fine despite hidden melted connector
The gaming/tech review site Dark Side of Gaming looked at its test rig RTX 4090 and 12VHPWR cable. Despite not removing the ...
Great, Now GeForce RTX 5080s Are Allegedly Melting Connectors Too
Our post on Tuesday about melting 12V-2X6 connectors on RTX 5090 GPUs concluded with a grim prediction that we could see more ...
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More Nvidia RTX 50 Cards Are Melting—It’s Probably The Cables’ Fault
Melting power cables was a persistent issue with Nvidia’s last-generation flagship, the RTX 4090. Its 450W power draw (with ...
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Overclocker Builds Copper Water Block for Nvidia RTX 5090
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 ...