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NVIDIA RTX 5090 graphics cards are melting power cables (again) — but who's to blame for this recurring GPU nightmare?

Melting cables are, once again, affecting high-end NVIDIA graphics cards, as a small selection of disgruntled GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition buyers and content creators take to social media to report unreasonably high temperatures radiating from its 600W connector.

Beebom · 3d

Nvidia’s RTX 5090 GPU Power Connectors Are Melting Away

According to various users, Nvidia RTX 5090 GPUs are facing melting power connectors issues. Read everything about it here.

PCGamesN · 3d

Forget the GPU temp, even the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 power cable can hit 150°C

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.

Hosted on MSN · 1d

Does the Nvidia RTX 5090 have a cable melting problem? It's complicated - but you probably don’t need to panic

Remember the Nvidia RTX 4090 cable-melting crisis? Claims that it’s back for the RTX 5090 might just be a load of hot air.

Yahoo · 1d

Nvidia's RTX 5090 power cables may be doomed to burn

A rising tide of speculators are arguing that Nvidia's 16-pin 12VHPWR standard is designed with no safety factor, causing melting cables.

PCGamesN4d

An Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card power socket has already melted

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 ...

Ars Technica4d

Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again

Here we (maybe) go again: Reports from a handful of early adopters of Nvidia's new GeForce ... delivering hundreds of watts of power to high-end GPUs over a single cable rather than trying to ...

Digital Trends12d

Nvidia’s RTX 5090 isn’t melting power cables, but it sure looks that way

Hong Kong-based tech outlet PCM raised alarms after testing Nvidia’s RTX 5090D and RTX 5080, where it encountered two melted 16-pin power cables ... for the melted cable, not the newer RTX ...

PC World1mon

Rumors swirl of Nvidia Arm CPUs for PCs coming later in 2025

and which still power the Nintendo Switch and the Nvidia Shield set-top box. (Rumors have also pointed to a Nvidia chip for the highly anticipated Switch successor.) But with Qualcomm charging ...

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