The 12VHPWR power cable issues strike again. The 12VHPWR power cable issues strike again. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...

In the slightly-bowdlerized words of GTA San Andreas protagonist Carl Johnson, "Aw, crap. Here we go again." Virtually anyone reading this site will well remember the unfortunate failures of 12VHPWR ...

What just happened? It appears that an RTX 5090 Founders Edition has suffered a melting connector issue. But before this gets added to the lengthy list of why Blackwell is proving to be the ...

A few days before the release of the new GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards by NVIDIA, some users on Reddit started reporting issues with the connectors of their Founders Edition models. The connector in ...

TL;DR: A Redditor reported that their NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card's power connector melted due to using a third-party cable instead of the official adapter. The issue ...

Facepalm: Imagine getting ahead of the scalpers and securing a $3,000+ RTX 5090, only for the connectors on the card and cable to melt. There has been yet another one of these incidents reported, with ...

Another RTX 5090 has been reported with a melted 16-pin connector, adding to the already-long list of such incidents. Fortunately, the GPU-side connector remains intact, as verified by the Redditor.

TL;DR: NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card has experienced its first reported melted 16-pin power connector issue, similar to the RTX 5090. A Redditor using an ASUS ROG Loki PSU ...

Another case has been reported of a 16-pin power connector on a GeForce RTX 5090 ending up completely burned, reviving concerns from the previous generation. Unlike the isolated incidents with the RTX ...

Another RTX 5090 has run into problems of blue screens and damaged cables, and in this case despite the user connecting it using MSI's yellow-tipped power cables ...

Summary: An RTX 5090 GPU is reportedly the culprit of melting another cable connector, causing damage to the GPU and other components. This isn’t the first time people have had issues with these GPUs, ...

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.