Two RTX 5090 users have already suffered burned connectors, and if community analysis is right, more may be on the way.
Redditor posts picture of his melted 16-pin power connector on his PSU, which had NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5080 Founders ...
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Nvidia's RTX 5090 power cables may be doomed to burnA rising tide of speculators are arguing that Nvidia's 16-pin 12VHPWR standard is designed with no safety factor, causing ...
A 12VHPWR power connector being used on the GeForce RTX 5090 has melted, sparking an investigation into the power draws of ...
NVIDIA has recently released their lineup of 40-series graphics cards, with a novel generation of power connectors called 12VHPWR. See, the previous-generation 8-pin connectors were no longer ...
The new flagship Nvidia gaming GPU has already melted under load, with the cable, power supply, and gaming GPU all damaged as ...
Investigations by YouTuber der8auer indicate that Nvidia may have a serious power problem on its hands with GeForce RTX 5090.
With the max spec of the 12VHPWR connection being 600W, a cable with up to five wires broken could go from six wires pulling 100W each to one wire pulling 600W, resulting in a major problem.
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