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Nvidia's RTX 5090 power cables may be doomed to burn
A rising tide of speculators are arguing that Nvidia's 16-pin 12VHPWR standard is designed with no safety factor, causing ...
Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again
Reports from a handful of early adopters of Nvidia's new GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card are reporting that their power cables ...
Great, Now GeForce RTX 5080s Are Allegedly Melting Connectors Too
Our post on Tuesday about melting 12V-2X6 connectors on RTX 5090 GPUs concluded with a grim prediction that we could see more ...
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NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU works fine with just 3 x 8-pin connectors, runs at 450W and only 5% slower
Who needs 4 x 8-pin connectors? Well, you do for the best performance, but testing suggests a trio of connectors comes mighty ...
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Nvidia suffers another bad case of melted cables
Nvidia's RTX 5090 is like the wicked witch of the west Early adopters of Nvidia's new GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card are ...
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How 3x 8-Pin Cables Affect RTX 5090 TGP and Performance
In systems with limited power and cooling, such as Mini PCs, using the GeForce RTX 5090 with three 8-pin power cables is a practical solution. By adjusting the power consumption setting in the ...
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Series likely won’t feature 16-pin connectors
Both GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 won't join the 12V-2x6 revolution and will instead sip power from an older 8-pin header ...
MSI's X870 and X870E motherboards come with an auxiliary 8-pin power connector, which could indicate some scary next-gen GPU power consumption levels
If you add another 150W from an 8-pin connector, you're looking at 225W from the motherboard alone. Now if you add up to 600W ...
Nvidia might break with tradition for the RTX 5060
Nvidia has been the champion of a new 12-pin power connector, but it might fall back to a standard PCIe adapter with the RTX ...