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 ...
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 ...
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 graphics cards are reportedly set to stick with eight-pin power connectors, rather than use the company's new 12VHPWR connector, suggests a new leak. This would ...
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Less than two weeks after its release, the first report of a melting Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 has surfaced online. While a third-party power cable was used, it's unclear right now what caused the fault ...
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 ...
Even MSI's custom, yellow 12V-2x6 power connectors aren't enough to stop Nvidia's RTX 5090s from occasionally burning their power cables and risking the entire PC in the process. A Redditor with one ...
TL;DR: The first report of a melting 12VHPWR connector on an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT highlights risks associated with using underpowered PSUs and potential user error ...
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