Following early reports of flammable RTX 50s, Hong Kong's PCM lays the blame for its cable woes on a different card. It’s actually just the last-generation RTX 4090 still doing it over two years ...

This suggests that the RTX 4090 FE almost certainly caused the cable to melt. Breathe easy; this was just a false alarm. A translation of the story is available if you expand the tweet below.

The RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 are power hungry beasts, but the first report of a melting power connector was actually caused by an RTX 4090, likely due to an improperly seated power cable. Hong Kong ...

so it appears the cable was misaligned when placed into the RTX 4090. The original 12VHPWR power connector has been a problem for RTX 4090 owners since the card launched in October 2022 as it can ...

This strongly suggested that the RTX 4090 FE was responsible for the melted cable, not the newer RTX 50-series cards. Ever since the introduction of the RTX 4090, several reports have documented ...

Power and communications cables and gas pipelines stitch together the nine countries with shores on the Baltic, a relatively shallow and nearly landlocked sea. A few examples are the 152-kilometer ...

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Should these hold weight for the rest of the card’s performance, the GPU will slot right in between RTX 4080 Super and RTX 4090. With RTX 5090 cementing its place as the fastest graphics card to date, ...

On Christmas morning, Estonia’s power grid operators got an unwanted surprise: The Estlink 2 power cable linking them to Finland had failed. The outage left only the Estlink 1 cable in operation ...