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 ...
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 ...
Some thermal imagery shared on Twitter/X underlines how toasty-hot power connectors servicing Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 ...
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 ...
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 ...
According to The Verge, the first reported incident involved an RTX 5090 user on Reddit who noticed a burning smell while playing Battlefield 5, leading them to inspect their system. Upon closer ...
With several reports of RTX 5090 power connectors melting ... Redditor Ambitious_Ladder1320 posted images of a 16-pin power connector that had melted on the PSU side. The power supply unit ...