A one of a kind 12VHPWR adapter featuring a cooling fan and built-in LCD is selling for just $30.The Latest Tech News, ...

The 12VHPWR connector (and its 12V-2x6 successor) is notorious for their vulnerability to high temperatures on power-hungry GPUs, to the point where it can melt. To combat this on the adapter side ...

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 ...

I f you're one of the 23 people around the world who has managed to snag an RTX 5090, you might be tempted to splash out on a ...

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 ...

Digital Foundry tests the GeForce 5070 Ti. On this page: we introduce our test system, benchmarking methodology and initial ...

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 ...

The proprietary 12VHPWR/12V-2x6 cables providing power to the graphics cards have been seen melting inside the GPU slot of 5090 and 5080 cards. Nvidia was confident that users would no longer see ...

The company provided information during the 2025 NVIDIA RTX AI Day event held in Seoul, South Korea, that the issue experienced with the RTX 4090 model's 12VHPWR (16-pin) connector had been ...

These older cables, identified with an "H+" marking, were constructed using the previous 12VHPWR specifications. In contrast, the new cables, labeled as "H++," feature enhancements that improve ...