Nvidia's decision to use the 16-pin (12VHPWR) power connector for its highest-powered GPUs has been popular for all the wrong reasons this week. Reports of melting cables in RTX 5090 GPUs are ...

Melting 12VHPWR cables on Nvidia GeForce graphics cards have been an ongoing issue since the company’s flagship RTX 4090 card launched, but one Chinese company thinks it finally has the solution.

If you thought the RTX 5090 has monstrous power requirements, you'll be floored by these leaked Nvidia GPU prototypes.

Nvidia has really let us down on this one. New 5080 and 500 GPUs come with this connector, and they’re once again fire-prone. Well, ...

A Chinese manufacturer has come up with a 12VHPWR adapter featuring active cooling and real-time power monitoring, aiming to mitigate concerns of melting GPU power connectors. The unique angled ...

Inno3D's custom GeForce RTX 4090 iCHILL X3 has a single 16-pin "12VHPWR" power connector that converts over to 3 x 8-pin PCIe power connectors. I've recently upgraded my major GPU test bed for ...

NVIDIA has recently released their lineup of 40-series graphics cards, with a novel generation of power connectors called 12VHPWR. See, the previous-generation 8-pin connectors were no longer ...

Melting power cable issues for the Nvidia RTX 4090 and now RTX 5090 GPUs still ... Cable maker Moddiy is warning against using old 12VHPWR cables with Nvidia’s latest GPU, especially as the ...

Cables featuring the "H+" identification were designed with the older 12VHPWR power spec in mind ... starting with the RTX 4070 and RTX 4090. However, the higher power draw of the RTX 5090 ...