We might be looking at literally the most cooked RTX 5090 yet, with a burnt power connector that has melted into itself, ...

TL;DR: A Reddit user reported a melted 12VHPWR power cable on a GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition, despite ensuring proper connection. An investigation by YouTuber der8auer revealed uneven power ...

A user-reported incident highlights both the risks of extreme GPU overclocking and the growing importance of power supply ...

Some owners of Nvidia's new RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics cards are reporting cases of melting power connectors and damaged power supplies (PSU). The problem resembles what was seen when the RTX ...

A few days before the release of the new GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards by NVIDIA, some users on Reddit started reporting issues with the connectors of their Founders Edition models. The connector in ...

Nvidia GPU has started to show its consequences on the RX 9070 XT. Sapphire's Nitro+ variant uses a 12v-2x6 connector, which ...

The launch of Nvidia’s RTX 5090 has brought incredible performance to gamers and creators, but once again, power connector problems are making headlines. Recent reports from users suggest that the 12V ...

Another RTX 5090 has run into problems of blue screens and damaged cables, and in this case despite the user connecting it using MSI's yellow-tipped power cables ...

I covered the RTX 5090 melting power connector situation yesterday, and I was surprised at the amount of people quick to blame “user error” for someone using a third-party cable. YouTuber der8auer has ...

The MSI GeForce RTX 5090 32G LIGHTNING Z has been unveiled at CES 2026, with MSI engineering the most powerful PC gaming GPU ...

MSI has revealed the design of its upcoming GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z ahead of CES 2026, giving an early look at the ...