RTX 5090 faces another serious 16-pin connector failure, with burn damage reportedly killing the GPU and VRAM chips.

The GeForce RTX 4090 was known to have a problem with melting its 12VHPWR power connectors. In response to this issue, PCI-SIG modified the connector to create the revised 12V-2x6 plug. While this is ...

A 12VHPWR cable-melting incident just killed our Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition. This isn't user error; it's a ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Inno3D's new custom GeForce RTX 5090 Frostbite graphics card is a water-cooled new Blackwell beast, but the 12V-2x6 power cable is absolutely cooking at ...

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.

It turns out that NVIDIA’s RTX 4070 is not carrying the same 16-pin power connector found on other RTX 40 series graphics cards. After careful inspection from Igor at Igor’s Lab, he found that the RTX ...

What just happened? It had to finally happen: someone has reported a case of a 12VHPWR connector that melted while connected to an AMD card. This sort of problem is a relatively common occurrence on ...

ASUS has a rather radical solution for the ill-fated 12VHPWR connector: ditch it instead of fixing it. A new BTF standard replaces 12VHPWR and cumbersome cable management for a 600W PCIe connector. At ...