Nvidia has really let us down on this one. New 5080 and 500 GPUs come with this connector, and they’re once again fire-prone.

Notably, third party cable manufacturers including Ezdiy-fab and Cablemod have introduced 12VHPWR adapters with heatsink solutions. While these adapters may or may not offer a workaround for ...

Cables featuring the "H+" identification were designed with the older 12VHPWR power spec in mind. The new adapter cable has three 8-pin input connectors that merge into a single 12V-2x6 connector ...

Angled adapters were some gamers’ go-to solution to deal with the sometimes awkward cable management involved with fitting an RTX 40-series card into their case with the 12VHPWR connection.

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.

In other words, at least one of these cable-melting cases appears to have been caused by user error: the 12VHPWR cable that melted, despite being physically compatible with the RTX 5090 ...

u/schmidtyjon's melted extension cable. First up, let's quickly take a look at the new GeForce RTX 4090 issue. Redditor /u/schmidtyjon posted about his melted 12VHPWR connector to /r/NVIDIA yesterday.

The so-called “Cablegate” 12VHPWR cable melting SNAFU of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 launch seems blasé compared to this wild west of GPU controversies. Still, there is a growing sense among ...

On inspection, der8auer found all three of the card, the 12VHPWR cable, and the PSU were damaged. The GPU's power socket had a single pin showing damage and evidence of melting, whereas that same ...