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

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 ...

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 5060.

Who needs 4 x 8-pin connectors? Well, you do for the best performance, but testing suggests a trio of connectors comes mighty ...

Coming in 750W, 850W, and 1,000W outputs be quiet!, a well-known German manufacturer of premium PC components, has unveiled ...

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series will not repeat Ada Lovelace's "bad rep" of risky melting power cables and connectors.

An interesting tidbit from TechPowerUp is that some custom RTX 5090 models feature thermal pads on the backside of the 16-pin power connector. The reason behind the decision is strictly a cautionary ...

When the RTX 4090 hit the market in October 2022, some users started reporting overheating and even melting power connectors. At first, Nvidia pointed to user error, claiming that people were plugging ...

The company provided information during the 2025 NVIDIA RTX AI Day event held in Seoul, South Korea, that the issue experienced with the RTX 4090 model's 12VHPWR (16-pin ... 12V-2×6 power ...

The 12VHPWR connector, also known as the PCIe 5.0 16-pin power connector ... Eventually, minor tweaks were implemented to introduce the 12V-2×6 connector. The new connector has the same layout ...