Nvidia's $1,599 GeForce RTX 4090 is an incredibly powerful graphics ... Nvidia uses a new kind of 16-pin 12VHPWR power connector to supply all that power to the card—you can plug up to four ...

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.

It’s no news that the power connector on one of Nvidia’s best graphics cards may sometimes melt, and yet, this is still new. Typically, the 12VHPWR connector found in the RTX 4090 would either ...

WTF?! Confirming that the melting 16-pin power connector problem hasn't gone away, another RTX 4090 user says that not only has his connector melted on the GPU side, it simultaneously turned to ...

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 ...

Two Reddit users have posted evidence of RTX 4090 power connectors burning or melting, weeks after warnings about thermal variance with the new 12VHPWR connectors. Two Reddit users have posted ...

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 power connector overheating and melting ...

They show the card's power connector has been repositioned away ... Surprisingly, a look at Gigabyte's RTX 4090 Windforce V2 product page shows absolutely no reference to the repositioned ...

Ah shit, here we go again. Two owners of Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 Founders Edition GPUs have reported melted power connectors and damage to their PSUs. The images look identical to reports of RTX ...

At least two owners of Nvidia’s powerful new GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card have reported their power adapters and connectors have melted during operation, Tom’s Hardware reports. The users ...

the ROG Matrix RTX 4090 and ROG Astral RTX 5090 cards include additional power delivery hardware between the 12VHPWR connector and the GPU's power phases to help detect an improper current balance.