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 ...

The 16-pin (12VHPWR) power connector has experienced meltdowns on some of the best graphics cards. Nevertheless, these unfortunate incidents have predominantly been reported on Nvidia's graphics cards ...

Nvidia is preparing to launch the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti to compete with AMD and the best graphics cards on the market. Meanwhile, VideoCardz has leaked various custom models from MSI, displaying the use ...

We recently saw AMD unveiling two brand new desktop GPUs from its Radeon 7000 series. The new RX 7800 XT and the RX 7700 XT are based on the RDNA 3 architecture and are claimed to be optimized for the ...

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: At CES 2025, ASRock unveiled its RDNA 4 graphics cards, led by the Radeon RX 9070 XT Taichi, featuring a 16-pin power connector compatible with the latest ATX 3.1 and PCIe 5.1 standards. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is getting ready to drop the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, a midrange card that could give AMD’s Radeon RX 7600 a run for its money. This GPU is expected to pull 180W, which is pretty modest compared to ...