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

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.

The issue allegedly causes damage not only to the cable but also to the PC's power supply — in one Reddit user's case, worth ...

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

While a third-party power cable was used, it’s unclear right now what caused the fault, with the graphics card, power supply, and GPU power cable all suffering from damage. This unfortunate ...

Their luck ran out shortly after, though, as in using a third-party power cable from Moddiy, they inadvertently killed their $2,000+ graphics card. It’s reportedly the same one they used on ...

Here we (maybe) go again: 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 ...

For some reason, this RTX 5090 early-adopter used a third-party, old-style 12VHPWR power connector with their new card rather ...

It's noted that the official cable that comes with the RTX 5090 is longer and more flexible, while the connector on the GPU side is angled. The original 12VHPWR power cable that came with the RTX ...

The guru in question paired an ASUS ROG Loki series power supply with a MODDIY cable instead of the PSU’s official cable or the one that shipped with the GPU. This third-party cable had been in ...

A report on Reddit seems to indicate that the damage is occurring on both the PSU end of the power cable and the section directly connected to the GPU. Interestingly, the problem has been seen ...