In the slightly-bowdlerized words of GTA San Andreas protagonist Carl Johnson, "Aw, crap. Here we go again." Virtually anyone reading this site will well remember the unfortunate failures of 12VHPWR ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card has experienced its first reported melted 16-pin power connector issue, similar to the RTX 5090. A Redditor using an ASUS ROG Loki PSU ...

Our post on Tuesday about melting 12V-2X6 connectors on RTX 5090 GPUs concluded with a grim prediction that we could see more melting power plugs on GeForce graphics cards. Well, you already know from ...

Asus has officially launched the new BTF versions of its RTX 5090 and RTX 5070 Ti graphics cards, each sporting the specialized GC-HPWR stealthed power connector. This unique way of powering the ...

We thought we’d seen the last of the problems with Nvidia’s 12VHPWR connector used for the RTX 40-series. However, it seems that the issues are not over, and the latest incident is different in a ...

MaxSun's RTX 4070 Super iCraft graphics card is notably different to all the other 4070 Super models now out there in that it sticks with a dual 8-pin power connector. As HXL, a regular leaker on X ...

Nvidia is preparing to launch the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti to compete with AMD and the best graphics cards on the market. Meanwhile, VideoCardz has leaked various custom models from MSI, displaying the use ...

What just happened? With several reports of RTX 5090 power connectors melting, it's starting to look as if the dreaded issue that was found by many RTX 4090 owners has made it to the Blackwell ...

Forward-looking: As cases of burning and melting RTX 5090 power cables continue to mount, Asus has demonstrated that its new Back to the Future (BTF) power connector design can maintain safe ...

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 graphics cards are reportedly set to stick with eight-pin power connectors, rather than use the company's new 12VHPWR connector, suggests a new leak. This would ...

Nvidia has been quick to wave away concerns that its RTX 5090 flagship graphics card, which consumes close to 600W of power, won’t melt power connectors like its predecessor had a habit of doing.

An overclocking forum post is drawing attention after an ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 modification attempt reportedly ended with melted hardware in the power chain. The user, posting under the ...