Reports of melting cables in RTX 5090 GPUs are reaching a fever pitch. Greek PC gaming site Dark Side of Gaming checked its last-gen RTX 4090 power connector for signs of melting and wear and ...

Reports from a handful of early adopters of Nvidia's new GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card are reporting that their power cables are melting (so far, there's at least one report on YouTube and one on ...

Melting power cable issues for the Nvidia RTX 4090 and now RTX 5090 GPUs still exists, even though Nvidia claims that it has resolved the problem. Because of this, some manufacturers have taken ...

der8auer speculates that ‘maybe that one wire was carrying 30A’ on the melted cable. Nvidia has already ensured a storm with melted RTX 4090 power sockets, and der8auer states that “with the ...

If you thought the RTX 5090 has monstrous power requirements, you'll be floored by these leaked Nvidia GPU prototypes.

Partly in response to the 4090 issues, the 12VHPWR connector ... delivering hundreds of watts of power to high-end GPUs over a single cable rather than trying to fit multiple 8-pin power ...