Our post on Tuesday about melting 12V-2X6 connectors on RTX 5090 GPUs concluded with a grim prediction that we could see more melting power plugs on GeForce graphics cards. Well, you already know from ...
Nvidia has been quick to wave away concerns that its RTX 5090 flagship graphics card, which consumes close to 600W of power, won’t melt power connectors like its predecessor had a habit of doing.
In the slightly-bowdlerized words of GTA San Andreas protagonist Carl Johnson, "Aw, crap. Here we go again." Virtually anyone reading this site will well remember the unfortunate failures of 12VHPWR ...
It was an exciting weekend for graphics card overclockers as several worked on one-upping each other in breaking world ...
TL;DR: NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card has experienced its first reported melted 16-pin power connector issue, similar to the RTX 5090. A Redditor using an ASUS ROG Loki PSU ...
What just happened? With several reports of RTX 5090 power connectors melting, it's starting to look as if the dreaded issue that was found by many RTX 4090 owners has made it to the Blackwell ...
Forward-looking: As cases of burning and melting RTX 5090 power cables continue to mount, Asus has demonstrated that its new Back to the Future (BTF) power connector design can maintain safe ...
We thought we’d seen the last of the problems with Nvidia’s 12VHPWR connector used for the RTX 40-series. However, it seems that the issues are not over, and the latest incident is different in a ...
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 graphics cards are reportedly set to stick with eight-pin power connectors, rather than use the company's new 12VHPWR connector, suggests a new leak. This would ...