Impressive images of a graphics card and its power cable fit for the garbage can.
Remember all those stories about melting sockets with the new 12VHPWR connector and, mainly, GeForce RTX 4090s? A problem that caused quite a stir, even though NVIDIA was very proud of this new plug format, which allows more current to pass through a single cable, thus powering its most powerful graphics cards.
So, no, it's not the "return of vengeance", and connectivity doesn't seem to be at fault this time. In fact, the problem probably lies with the user, but the result is no less impressive. Indeed, on the Reddit platform, photos of an almost complete melting of the power cable's 16-pin socket and a badly damaged graphics card connector have been published and relayed by VideoCardz. These photos are almost heartbreaking, given that the graphics card in question is none other than a Zotac RTX 5090 SOLID, one of the many references for the most powerful graphics card available on our PCs. Poof, almost 3,000 euros down the drain.
Plug and connector melted on a GeForce RTX 5090 © VideoCardz
The user in question is at fault in the first place, having used a Cooler Master MWE 80Plus Gold 850 W V2 power supply which, as its name clearly indicates, is designed to deliver up to 850 watts. The problem? Well, Zotac states that a 1000-watt power supply is required for its RTX 5090 SOLID. That said, you'd need more than that to burn it all. That leaves us with the hypothesis of an incorrectly plugged cable, and here we lack the data to judge. In any case, one thing is certain: you have to be more than careful what you do when assembling a PC with a graphics card capable of swallowing up so much power.
