The first report on a GeForce RTX 5090 With the melted feed connector.
RTX 5090: They report the first GPU with the burned connector
This would be the first report about a RTX 5090 That has a problem with the feed connector. The ghosts of the old connector 12VHPWR They emerge again, although it is still early to talk about a generalized problem.
The case of a graphics card RTX 5090 With the melted power connector it was published Reddit. The user IVAN6953 commented that I was playing Battlefield v and that with electricity consumption it ranged from the 500 and 520 W. The session came well until he felt the smell of burning and off the PC immediately. To his surprise, he quickly noticed that the food connector had partially melted.
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The graphics card is a model Founders Edition and power cable 12V-2 × 6 It is not the one included in the box next to the faith model, but it is a third -party (unofficial) feeding connector of the brand Moddiywhich is supposed to meet the specifications ATX 3.0 and PCIE 5.0supporting up to 600 W.
Not only the power cable suffered damage, but also the power supply Asus Rog Lokias we can see in one of the images. The connector 12V-2 × 6 The source also partially melted.
The user states that when I connect the cable, the audible click was heard indicating that the cable was correctly inserted, so this should not have happened. The user said he will submit guarantee claims to Nvidia already Asus To solve the problem.
At the moment, there is not what to be alarmed, but we will be attentive to everything that arises about the series RTX 50. We will keep you informed.
