Nvidia’s latest graphics cards are absolute monsters, both in terms of size and power draw. In fact the ferocious GeForce RTX 4090 uses the brand new 12VHPWR 16-pin power rail design, featured ...

The 12VHPWR connector is a hot topic once again – Nvidia has really let us down on this one. New 5080 and 500 GPUs come with this connector, and they’re once again fire-prone. Well, wha… ...

Though the fervor around melting graphics cards using the new 16-pin 12VHPWR connectors for PCIe 5.0-compliant graphics cards has died down as of late, no one would blame you for feeling a bit ...

CableMod has announced that their long-awaited Angled adapter for the controversial NVIDIA 12VHPWR connectors ... important considering the size of these new 40 series GPU’s making ...

MSI Might Have Saved 12VHPWR Cables From Melting With One Small Change. ... and it coincided with complaints about the GPUs' size, making for an easy hit on Nvidia. However, ...

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Nvidia's first-party RTX 4090 and 4080 designs are both 12×5.4×2.4 inches (304×137×61 mm), and the 12VHPWR adapters that come with them add a bit of additional width on top of that.

But if you do make the jump and you use a good quality PCIe 5.1 power supply, ensuring that its 12VHPWR cable is firmly plugged into the supply and BTF motherboard, you should be able to wave ...

Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 GPUs are experiencing issues with the 12VHPWR power connector melting. It’s similar to reports of RTX 40-series connectors melting. The 12VHPWR power cable is still ...

Nvidia has expressed confidence that the infamous melting issues with the 12VHPWR power connectors, which plagued some RTX 40-series GPUs, will not recur with its next-generation RTX 50-series lineup.

If you're using an angled CableMod 12VHPWR adapter on your Nvidia GPU, then you need to stop using it immediately and destroy it, says the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).According to ...

Notably, third party cable manufacturers including Ezdiy-fab and Cablemod have introduced 12VHPWR adapters with heatsink solutions. While these adapters may or may not offer a workaround for ...