Heard about Nvidia GPU cables melting? Learn what causes this dangerous issue, which cards are affected, and how to avoid it.

Funda trenzada para cables de placa y gpu. Responder. Victorman873 13 ene 2025 20:50 * Novato. 4 mensajes desde may 2024. Editado 1 vez. Última: 13/01/2025 - 20:55:32 por Victorman873.

Between the “melting” issues of the 12VHPWR connector for PCIe 5.0 graphics cards, and the recent “war on cables” push for eliminating or hiding connections to a PC’s power supply, we ...

You can still use two cables—it works fine, too. But you won’t get that setup’s intended benefit unless you have a power supply with more than one 12V rail for a graphics card to pull ...

Forget the GPU temp, even the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 power cable can hit 150°C. Thermal images of the new graphics card show one wire of the 16-pin 12VHPWR cable drawing over 20A and running at ...

Asus. Asus gave us a glimpse into the future at Computex 2023 with its concept graphics card that is essentially cable-free. Instead of having any traditional 8-pin or 16-pin power connectors, the ...

Asus' innovative cable-free graphics cards going into mass production before the end of the year. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

TL;DR: The GeForce RTX 5090, with a 600W TGP, is the most power-intensive gaming GPU, leading to reports of melted power cables. A recent case involves the RTX 5070, where a damaged pin on the 12V ...

Perhaps the graphics card maker will expand this support in time, as it’s undoubtedly a useful warning system to have – and cable melting reports are not exclusive to these models.

Asus is really hoping its new cable-free design for future graphics cards catches on, as it's bringing it to its next generation of B850 motherboards for AMD's Ryzen 9000 CPUs.