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Leo and the team have been at Computex all week in Taipei and today they spent time with Sapphire seeing new graphics cards ...
The melting problem with the 12VHPWR connector is tried-and-true lore in the PC hardware community at this point, but before ...
The coming $249 RTX 5050 desktop cards might win on brand power alone, with the $299 RTX 5060 helping Nvidia lock up the ...
That said, it's worth remembering that one still has to use a 12VHPWR cable, or multiple 8-pin PCIe cables, between the BTF ...
Surely many people still haven't forgotten the "explosion" scandal on the Nvidia RTX 40-series graphics card line.
Cable hiding for desktop PC builders has taken another twist with a new approach to graphics-card power delivery. I took a look inside Asus' newest version of its Back to the Future initiative.
Another melted Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 power cable has appeared online, and this time it was a 12VHPWR cable specifically designed to stop it from being connected incorrectly. MSI started ...
More recently, there was a case where both ends of a 12VHPWR cable, as well as the RTX 5090 and the PSU, all showed burn damage. There has also been at least one melting incident involving an RTX ...
Earlier this year, overclocker Der8auer replicated the setup of one of these RTX 5090 melting incidents using a Corsair 12VHPWR cable. The cable's connectors reached 150°C on the PSU side and ...
The so-called “Cablegate” 12VHPWR cable melting SNAFU of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 launch seems blasé compared to this wild west of GPU controversies.
Nvidia's RTX 50-series GPUs came out in January, and it takes a lot of luck or a lot of money to get one as they're flying off shelves. Those who have been able to take one home and install it in ...
Backward compatibility with third-party 12VHPWR cables is likely to continue to be an issue for Nvidia’s GPUs - notably, MODDIY now has a page on its website advising buyers with RTX 5000-series ...