Hardware Unboxed Becomes the Latest Reviewer to Witness an RTX 5090 Cable Meltdown on the Testbench

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Hardware Unboxed is the latest to fall victim to the infamous melting 12VHPWR/12V-2×6 cable as one bit the dust during testing of the flagship ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090. Media coverage of this issue may have fallen by the wayside over the last year, but that doesn’t mean it has gone away, and this incident […]

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[Brent_Justice]

Another one bites the dust....

Problematic design.

 

[theblackangus]

When is this going to be elevated a recall and re-design?
Very obviously this is not a safe design.

 

[Skillz]

This is the biggest thing I am scared of lol

 

[Brian_B]

I just read an article somewhere saying DLSS 5 pushes power draw through the roof too.. like over 800W in some cases

So have fun with that, all you 5090 firestarters!

 

[theblackangus]

I just read an article somewhere saying DLSS 5 pushes power draw through the roof too.. like over 800W in some cases

So have fun with that, all you 5090 firestarters!

I read the same and was thinking the same... will DLSS5 be the technology that kills a bunch of Nvidia cards because of high power usage?

 

[MadMummy76]

I just read an article somewhere saying DLSS 5 pushes power draw through the roof too.. like over 800W in some cases

So have fun with that, all you 5090 firestarters!

800 for just the GPU? My entire pc draws 400W under load.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Haven't tried it yet but when I do I'll let you know. I do whatever I can to enforce power limits with mine so we'll see if it manages to do a driver end-run. My rigs usually hang in the 400-500, total draw range, 300-350-ish for GPUs and occasionally under 300.