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Another 16-pin GPU power connector gets scorched, but this time it's not an RTX 5090 — user finds their Sapphire Nitro+ 9070 XT with scorched pins
Nvidia GPU has started to show its consequences on the RX 9070 XT. Sapphire's Nitro+ variant uses a 12v-2x6 connector, which ...
In brief: Following reports of melting and burning power cables from RTX 4090 owners, users are understandably concerned about Nvidia's upcoming next-generation high-end graphics cards. Although all ...
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 power wire reportedly caught fire despite using the original cable — CPU cooler's tubing was also caught in the blaze
We might be looking at literally the most cooked RTX 5090 yet, with a burnt power connector that has melted into itself, ...
Rumors have already pointed to the forthcoming Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 drawing a lot of power, but the latest speculation is that the new GPU could have not one, but two 16-pin power sockets. When ...
Early adopters of Nvidia's new GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card are reporting that their power cables are melting. For those who remember such things, something similar happened early in the RTX 4090's ...
Nvidia launched its Ampere line of GPUs with a novel design for power that ditched 8-pin PCIe cables in favor of a single, high-powered cable called 12VHPWR. Despite Nvidia introducing this technology ...
The 5090 Astral provides an imbalance warning, but no automatic protection and no actual load balancing. It just pops a notification to the user that the load is uneven across the connector. And as ...
TL;DR: Inno3D's GeForce RTX 5090 Frostbite graphics card, featuring water cooling, faces issues with its 12V-2x6 power cable reaching over 150°C. Reviewer Andreas Schilling highlighted the thermal ...
Another melted Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 power cable has appeared online, and this time it was a 12VHPWR cable specifically designed to stop it from being connected incorrectly. MSI started including a ...
TL;DR: The GeForce RTX 5090, with a 600W TGP, is the most power-intensive gaming GPU, leading to reports of melted power cables. A recent case involves the RTX 5070, where a damaged pin on the 12V-2x6 ...
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Multi-GPU setups never performed all that well (maybe a 20-30% performance boost vs. the 100% you'd hope for). Heck, most games still don't do a good job of utilizing more than one CPU core, and those ...
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