A few months ago, we covered the first reported case of a 16-pin power connector meltdown for AMD's RX 9070 XT. Usually, it's Nvidia's RTX 4090 and 5090s that face the fire, but Sapphire has adopted ...

The controversial 16-pin power connector is once again under scrutiny after a new incident involving the Sapphire RX 9070 XT graphics card. A user reported that the 16-pin connector melted while using ...

Update 11/18: In a new post on the Nvidia support page, the company confirmed that it is still "actively investigating" reports about the 12VHPWR 16-pin connector cable. Nvidia notes that "about 50 ...

Another 16-pin connector has burned out. This time, the issue occurred while DSOGaming was testing a GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition. They were running performance tests on the game WUCHANG: Fallen ...

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards were the first mainstream products to feature the 16-pin power connector. However, Nvidia might not stick to this format for the upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 ...

In a recent incident reported on the Korean Quasar Zone forums, an owner of an MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Suprim X 24G graphics card experienced a simultaneous meltdown of the 16-pin power connector on both ...

Daniel's been gaming since he was old enough to reach the keyboard and has a Bachelor's Degree in Writing from the University of Tampa. Graphics card manufacturer Nvidia now faces legal action over ...

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 molten ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's 16-pin 12VHPWR power connector for RTX 40 and 50 Series GPUs has faced recurring issues of melting cables and overheating. AMD's Radeon RX 9000 Series also reports similar failures, ...

AMD and Intel are reportedly testing 16-pin power connectors on their next-gen gaming GPUs, meaning these new graphics cards could finally ditch the good old-fashioned 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power ...

TL;DR: ASUS's new BTF 2.5 GC-HPWR power connector, tested on the ROG Strix GeForce RTX 5090 BTF, delivers up to 1900W with improved reliability and temperatures below 40°C. This advanced connector ...