Facepalm: Imagine getting ahead of the scalpers and securing a $3,000+ RTX 5090, only for the connectors on the card and cable to melt. There has been yet another one of these incidents reported, with ...

What just happened? We've seen plenty of melted GPU and cable connectors involving Nvidia graphics cards, but some have question marks over their legitimacy. However, the latest incident, involving an ...

TL;DR: Professional overclocker Der8auer shunt-modded the ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090, raising its power limit from 600W to over 800W. This modification enables higher GPU and memory clock speeds ...

We have another case of a burned 16-pin cable with a GeForce RTX 5090. The affected user said that the connector on the graphics card looked normal before using it. He also decided to limit the ...

In worrying news for gamers, yet another burned-out Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 cable has been reported. While the GPU power port itself seems undamaged, a burned-out MSI cable, specifically designed to ...

Famed overclocker Roman "Der8auer" Hartung has pushed the RTX 5090 to its absolute limits, raising the power limit to close to 800W using a shunt modification. It needed water cooling to prevent ...

Nvidia’s Blackwell GPU series is facing renewed scrutiny after an RTX 5070 owner reported a melted power cable. While these incidents remain rare, they highlight potential design flaws that could ...

The Nvidia RTX 5090 graphics cards appear to still be having trouble in the connector department, with a user reporting that their component experienced a melted cable. Reddit user Roachard recently ...

The power cable for an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card has been shown reaching a scorching temperature of 150°C in thermal tests, prompting concern that the days of melting ...