As illustrated by BuildZoid below, on cards using 8-pin and 6-pin power connections, a typical GPU has a shunt resistor for each plug. On the 30-series, Nvidia ... and fire could break out.

Nvidia’s RTX 5090 is facing early concerns as reports of melting 16-pin power connectors have emerged ... RTX 5090 owners might want to keep a fire extinguisher nearby—just in case.

With this connector, NVIDIA attempted to address the constantly growing power ... plug in four 8-pin connectors instead of one 12-pin connector that could potentially make your room catch on fire.

In yet more troubling Nvidia news, an owner of a new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 has reported that their graphics card set itself on fire ... with one of the GPU’s power stages instead, responsible ...

What makes this development interesting is that Nvidia said just last month that these new RTX 50-series cards won’t melt power plugs this time. Nvidia uses so-called “sense pins” to prevent ...

we began seeing pictures of melted 12VHPWR plugs and sockets online — specifically, involving ATX 8-pin GPU power to 12VHPWR adapters that NVIDIA provided with their cards. Now, [Igor Wallossek ...

We've reached out to Nvidia ourselves and are waiting to hear back. For now, the wise advice seems to be to hold fire on that RTX 5090 FE buy or maybe look out for an AIB board with per-pin power ...

The 12VHPWR power cable issues strike again. The 12VHPWR power cable issues strike again. Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and ...