Asus has given the special stealth power connector on its RTX 5090 BTF edition graphics cards a little upgrade. To show just how capable it is, Asus China's general manager, Tony Yu, released a video ...

When NVIDIA introduced the new ATX 3.0 ready 12VHPWR power connector with the new GeForce RTX 40 Series, we began to see reports of connectors melting on the GPU-side for the 450W power-rated GeForce ...

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 fault ...

TL;DR: Inno3D's GeForce RTX 5090 Frostbite graphics card, featuring water cooling, faces issues with its 12V-2x6 power cable reaching over 150°C. Reviewer Andreas Schilling highlighted the thermal ...

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Fry No More: The problem of melting power cables is a rare but persistent concern for modern GPUs. Many gamers fear losing expensive, energy-consuming graphics cards to cables that overheat or even ...

Common wisdom on the internet proclaims you must use two separate power cables when attaching two 6- or 8-pin power connectors to a graphics card. According to some, using just one cable is a danger.