Nvidia’s RTX 5090 power connectors are melting (www.theverge.com)
from handnutaschnitte@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 2025 16:02
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[deleted] on 11 Feb 2025 16:13 next collapse

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earphone843@sh.itjust.works on 11 Feb 2025 16:19 collapse

How is it clickbait when there’s literally pictures of the melted connectors in the article?

[deleted] on 11 Feb 2025 16:22 collapse

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Voyajer@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 2025 16:44 next collapse

Every cable except for Nvidia’s 8 pin octopus cable adapters are third party. That includes the native 12Vhpwr/12V-2x6 cables that are coming with high end PSUs. The actual connectors are all made by either Amphenol or Molex anyway.

[deleted] on 11 Feb 2025 16:54 collapse

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earphone843@sh.itjust.works on 11 Feb 2025 17:17 collapse

If the connectors are on the board, and they melt, it’s on the manufacturer that put them on the board, especially since this happened with the last release.

A $2,000 GPU shouldn’t carry the risk of burning your house down.

coacoamelky@lemm.ee on 11 Feb 2025 18:25 collapse

I think your comment opened my eyes to my poor reading skills. I was talking about cables not the connector.

SavvyBeardedFish@reddthat.com on 11 Feb 2025 17:40 next collapse

Der8auer’s video is worth a watch, he got one of the Redditor’s card:

youtu.be/Ndmoi1s0ZaY

burgersc12@mander.xyz on 12 Feb 2025 01:50 collapse

This is huge. A working setup like that leading to >150°C after 4 minutes on those thin cables is insanity!

hark@lemmy.world on 12 Feb 05:29 next collapse

Their power connectors are melting up just like their stock.

Nalivai@lemmy.world on 12 Feb 05:56 collapse

Exactly. In a sence that it happened once, wasn’t really significant, but people making it out to be some kind of catastrophe instead of a pretty regular not very newsworthy event

CaptKoala@lemmy.ml on 12 Feb 06:47 collapse

New gen, same issues. Glad I jumped to AMD this build. No Nvidia product has been worth the cost:performance ratio for me since GTX10 series.