The first report of a melted NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 connector has surfaced from a user who reported melted connectors on both GPU & cable. Redditor Uses Third-Party 12VHPWR Connector on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Only to See Melted Connectors This case is a classic example of why you shouldn’t be using the older 12-pin connector, i.e., 12VHPWR, which has previously caused so much trouble for users. The 12VHPWR connector is known to have design flaws but was upgraded to mitigate the melting issues we saw on the RTX 4090 GPUs. However, one user made the same mistake […]
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