A few months ago, we covered the first reported case of a 16-pin power connector meltdown for AMD's RX 9070 XT. Usually, it's Nvidia's RTX 4090 and 5090s that face the fire, but Sapphire has adopted ...

The 16-pin (12VHPWR) power connector has experienced meltdowns on some of the best graphics cards. Nevertheless, these unfortunate incidents have predominantly been reported on Nvidia's graphics cards ...

A Reddit user recently documented a troubling incident involving the BeQuiet Dark Power 13 1000W power supply, where a 16-pin connector had completely melted. This occurrence is reminiscent of the ...

With that, companies are lining up new hardware, including Power Supplies or PSUs, designed for the next generation of PC gaming and desktop AI. For example, MSI's impressive new 1600W MEG Ai1600T ...

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 remains a fascinating GPU, and continues to interest us as we learn more about it. Case in point, a prototype design that is packing four power connectors recently came into ...

Update 11/18: In a new post on the Nvidia support page, the company confirmed that it is still "actively investigating" reports about the 12VHPWR 16-pin connector cable. Nvidia notes that "about 50 ...

WTF?! Confirming that the melting 16-pin power connector problem hasn't gone away, another RTX 4090 user says that not only has his connector melted on the GPU side, it simultaneously turned to molten ...

The GeForce RTX 4090 was known to have a problem with melting its 12VHPWR power connectors. In response to this issue, PCI-SIG modified the connector to create the revised 12V-2x6 plug. While this is ...

TL;DR: ASUS's new BTF 2.5 GC-HPWR power connector, tested on the ROG Strix GeForce RTX 5090 BTF, delivers up to 1900W with improved reliability and temperatures below 40°C. This advanced connector ...