A Reddit user claims their GeForce RTX 5080 and PSU haven't played nice, resulting in an unfortunately crispy cable.

A previous incident involving an RTX 5090 system highlighted the shortcomings of the older cable design. A verified report described how a power connector overheated and melted, prompting Moddiy to ...

Falcon Northwest has been unable to recreate YouTuber Der8auer's findings about the melting 16-pin power connectors on the ...

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Form over function was apparently the motto for the design of the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition and its predecessor, the GeForce RTX 4090. Starting with the 4000 series, Nvidia has simplified the ...

A 12VHPWR power connector being used on the GeForce RTX 5090 has melted, sparking an investigation into the power draws of ...

Some users who purchased NVIDIA's latest flagship card - the RTX 5090 are complaining of melting power connectors. It is ...

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card experiences melted 12V-2x6 power connector, third-party cable is ...

A leaker managed to get ahold of some of Nvidia's latest-generation development/bring-up boards. The prototype hardware ...

Two RTX 5090 users have already suffered burned connectors, and if community analysis is right, more may be on the way.

Thermal images of the new graphics card show one wire of the 16-pin 12VHPWR cable drawing over 20A and running at a high temperature.

der8auer thinks none of the above. Using his own RTX 5090 FE, he loaded the GPU up with Furmark and found some worrying ...