“I Guess It Was a Matter of Time”: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Power Connector Melted While Playing Battlefield V, User Says

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The power connector for the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition, a reference version of NVIDIA's new flagship GPU for gamers, creators, and developers based on the "Blackwell" architecture that is said to start at $1,999, may melt when certain third-party cables are used to power the 575-watt TGP GPU with 32 GB of GDDR7 memory, according to an incident that has been submitted to the r/NVIDIA subreddit.

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Soo the unmeltable, unerrorable , foolproof , solidly connected, cant connect half way cable melted. Interesting. Typically these things hapen when you want to Steve Jobs everything including connectors, as opposed to admit this is a utilitarian matter, and theres no shame in thicker plugs, thicker wires and such.
 
I guess it doubles as a fuse, just not a good one.
 
So did he use an extension cable, or is that the native cable from the PSU? It isn't clear in either the article or his PC Parts Picker list

Really looks like a cable failure there, and those happen on occasion, so I wouldn't go jumping to this being a wide spread issue just yet.

If he was using an extension cable, well...

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Uvilla said:
Soo the unmeltable, unerrorable , foolproof , solidly connected, cant connect half way cable melted.
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Well was this a 12VHPWR connector and cable, or 12V-2x6? Cuz it's the latter that is supposed to be safer and more foolproof.
 
DrezKill said:
Well was this a 12VHPWR connector and cable, or 12V-2x6? Cuz it's the latter that is supposed to be safer and more foolproof.
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The problem is inherent to the design: Wire quality, pin size, connector housing, and lower tolerances than the previous design, all equate to a bad, inherent, design of the whole thing. The whole thing needs to be scrapped, go back to PCI-SIG, and completely re-design a new connector type.

I put this on PCI-SIG for OK'ing this design, certifying it, and pushing it forward. I'm sure it had some hands helping to push it along quicker, but ultimately somebody OK'd this, and that was a mistake.
 
So jokes aside, with the 4090 supposedly the melting stopped, but why? Could it be that they did a driver update cutting off cable melting power spikes or something... I mean in the end the 4090 ended up with a great many installations, presumably all kinds of cables of all kinds of quality and yet, supposedly, the melt was no more.
 
Doesn't help that 5090 has a higher stock thermal envelope
 
Guy reused a cable.
Appears to be capable of jacking into the psu directly. Doesnt look like an extension, male plugs on both ends.
5090 pulls more than 4090, no doubt.
My money is on a bad cable.
I hope nvidia cuts the guy a break. If not 2k just literally went up in smoke.
 
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