While it got warm, it didn't melt or crash the system despite pulling over three times what an RTX 5090 would typically ...

Nvidia's $1,599 GeForce RTX 4090 is an incredibly powerful graphics card, but its performance comes at the cost of high power draw. Like a few of the RTX 3000-series cards, Nvidia uses a new kind ...

The RTX 4090 itself is massive, as is the 16-pin power connector. As a result, some builders had to bend their connectors in order to install the GPU, and this caused the connection to be faulty ...

RTX 4090 has officially launched at retail, and we are following up our Founders Edition review with a look at the Inno3D RTX 4090 X3 OC. There's no dual-BIOS and the power limit is locked at 450W, ...

Nvidia's RTX 4090 power connectors typically melt quickly or not at all -- but it seems that, even after a year, the GPU can still be in danger. Skip to main content. Menu ...

The melting 16-pin power connector (12VHPWR) issue has been haunting RTX 4090 owners since Nvidia's flagship launched back in October 2022. It's a big problem that hasn't ...

In a recent Bilibili video, translated by Tom's Hardware, Asus China GM Tony Yu pumped nearly 2 kilowatts into an Nvidia RTX 5090 to showcase the ...

It’s a bulky adapter that’s supplied with RTX 4090 cards, and needs up to four 8-pin power connectors. Power supply vendors are starting to ship 12VHPWR cables that ditch the bulky connector ...

Remember the RTX 4090 cable-melting fiasco? Way back in November 2022, following the launch of Nvidia’s mighty new flagship RTX 4090 graphics card, there were scattered reports of the GPU’s ...

A few weeks ago, some early adopters of Nvidia's new flagship RTX 4090 GPU began reporting that the cards' power connectors were overheating and melting their plastic casing, sometimes causing ...

It just makes so much sense. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Gigabyte has quietly released a revised version of its RTX ...

You can tell that ASUS' board designers recognized this issue, because as both Buildzoid and Der8auer point out, the ROG Matrix RTX 4090 and ROG Astral RTX 5090 cards include additional power ...