I covered the RTX 5090 melting power connector situation yesterday, and I was surprised at the amount of people quick to blame “user error” for someone using a third-party cable. YouTuber der8auer has ...

The power connector for the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition, a reference version of NVIDIA's new flagship GPU for gamers, ...

Two owners of Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 Founders Edition GPUs have reported melted power connectors and damage to their PSUs. The ...

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

Reports from a handful of early adopters of Nvidia's new GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card are reporting that their power cables ...

A Reddit user going by the name ivan6953 shared images of an RTX 5090 FE with a badly melted connector. Given that this was a ...

Shares of Nvidia, the poster child of the AI boom in recent years, dragged US stocks lower, sinking 17 per cent on Monday and wiping $593bn from the chipmaker’s market value, a record one-day ...

When the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series debuted back in 2022, the issue surrounding melting power cables and connectors, particularly on the beastly GeForce RTX 4090 created doubts about GPUs going ...

NVIDIA has given consumers its assurance that the melting 12VHPWR connector issue that plagued its GeForce RTX 4090 GPU will not be an issue with the RTX 50 Series. The brand says that that problem ...

When the RTX 4090 hit the market in October 2022, some users started reporting overheating and even melting power connectors. At first, Nvidia pointed to user error, claiming that people were ...

Remarkably, Nvidia has also managed to get the size of the RTX 5090 cooler down to just two slots. There are two fans on the front, and just vents on the back, and between them is the tiny RTX ...

Nvidia has been quick to wave away concerns that its RTX 5090 flagship graphics card, which consumes close to 600W of power, won’t melt power connectors like its predecessor had a habit of doing.