According to The Verge, the first reported incident involved an RTX 5090 user on Reddit who noticed a burning smell while playing Battlefield 5, leading them to inspect their system. Upon closer ...

Caution is also advised with Nvidia's new generation of graphics cards. Cables and connections can still melt.

Form over function was apparently the motto for the design of the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition and its predecessor, the GeForce RTX 4090. Starting with the 4000 series, Nvidia has simplified the ...

Whether you own an EV or are thinking of getting one, here’s what you need to know in the event of the battery becoming fully ...

In other words, at least one of these cable-melting cases appears to have been caused by user error: the 12VHPWR cable that ...

Officers tried to get into the vehicle to save the driver, but, 'due to the intensity of the flames and heat, they were ...

Our post on Tuesday about melting 12V-2X6 connectors on RTX 5090 GPUs concluded with a grim prediction that we could see more ...

Two owners of Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 Founders Edition GPUs have reported melted power connectors and damage to their PSUs. The ...

High-performance connectors like 12V-2×6, sometimes called 12VHPWR, deliver significant current to advanced graphics cards such as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition. Each connector pin ...

der8auer thinks none of the above. Using his own RTX 5090 FE, he loaded the GPU up with Furmark and found some worrying ...

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 ...

A Hong Kong media outlet was scared by two melted 16-pin cables; initially mistakenly attributed to RTX 5090 testing.