An investigation by YouTuber der8auer revealed uneven power distribution across the cable pins, with one pin carrying an excessive load, leading to melting. The issue may stem from the RTX 5090's ...
Even AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 9070-series are using existing 8-pin ... power adapters last year after reports of melted adapters. We reached out to Nvidia to comment on these latest reports of ...
NVIDIA and many others investigated the melting plugs, and the conclusion was that it was too easy to mess up plugging in the 12+4-pin power ... power draw of the GeForce RTX 5090 over the ...
Future custom RTX 5090 cards may include more 16-pin connectors ... that featured 4 x 8-pin power connectors, GA104 with 3 x 8-pin power connectors, GA107 with 1 x 8-pin power connector, and ...
Some thermal imagery shared on Twitter/X underlines how toasty-hot power connectors servicing Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 ...
Less than two weeks after its release, the first report of a melting Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 has surfaced online ... using either a suitable 16-pin GPU power cable made by your PSU manufacturer ...
According to der8auer, some AIB RTX 5090 designs include per-pin power sensing, which would presumably stop this kind of power imbalance from happening. But, surprisingly, Nvidia's own FE design ...
Credit: u/ivan6953 / Reddit As the RTX 50-series rollout ... only 2 or 3 of its pins carry 12V power, and at the minimum 9A spec, a single 12V pin of a 75W 6-pin connection has more margin of ...
One Reddit user (thanks VideoCardz), after replacing their RTX 4090 with an RTX 5090, noticed a burning smell during a gaming session. Upon checking, they found melted plastic on both the power ...