The 12VHPWR power cable issues strike again. The 12VHPWR power cable issues strike again. Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and ...

After much investigation and many guesses from Nvidia and other testers, the 4090's power connector issues ended up being blamed on what was essentially user error; the 12VHPWR connectors were not ...

Here we go again." Virtually anyone reading this site will well remember the unfortunate failures of 12VHPWR connectors on GeForce RTX 4090 cards. NVIDIA and many others investigated the melting ...

ASUS ROG Loki PSUs are linked to multiple incidents, raising concerns about the 12VHPWR connector design and wire quality. The upgraded 12V-2x6 connector is recommended for the RTX 50 series GPUs.

The compact 12VHPWR connector initially used by the RTX 4090 – and the revised 12V-2×6 that’s now used – might be less bulky than traditional PCIe cables, but it’s easy for users to ...

Okay, that’s hyperbolic, but a small but notable number of 40-series cards had issues with the new 12VHPWR connector setup that caused cards to short out and fail. Nvidia says that won’t ...

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.

TL;DR: A Reddit user reported a melted 12VHPWR power cable on a GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition, despite ensuring proper connection. An investigation by YouTuber der8auer revealed uneven power ...