TL;DR: The first report of a melting 12VHPWR connector on an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT highlights risks associated with using underpowered PSUs and potential user error ...

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.

Even MSI's custom, yellow 12V-2x6 power connectors aren't enough to stop Nvidia's RTX 5090s from occasionally burning their power cables and risking the entire PC in the process. A Redditor with one ...

A new high density power connector designed as part of the PCIe 5.0 standard, and rumoured to be present on the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, has come to light. Called 12VHPWR, the new connector can ...

Asus has just unveiled a new graphics card connector that does away with the power cables and sockets of conventional cards, and instead relies on a motherboard slot to deliver power, able to deliver ...

Ever since the launch of the RTX 4090, there has been a steady stream of reports of high-end Nvidia GPUs melting the power cables that connect to them. Nvidia initially tried to solve the issue with a ...

Normally I'd suggest burning such things to the ground but they're doing that themselves.

In late 2008, your author built a killer SFF PC using a Shuttle XPC case. Inside was a Core 2 Extreme QX9650, 16 GB of DDR3 memory, an Intel X25-M SSD, and a GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 graphics card.

Graphics Card High-Power (GC-HPWR), a finger connector that ASUS introduced as part of its BTF (Back-to-The-Future) ecosystem to power GPUs without the need for traditional cabling (e.g., 6/8-pin PCIe ...