The melting problem with the 12VHPWR connector is tried-and-true lore in the PC hardware community at this point, but before ...

A special version of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti made for the Chinese market suffered a meltdown with its 12VHPWR power ...

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… ...

To that end, early this year, I bought a Corsair RMx Shift 1000 W PSU, partly because it was on offer at the time, but mostly ...

Oct. 25 Showing what a distraction the 12VHPWR has become, AMD’s Scott Herkelman publicly confirms the new Radeon cards will skip 12VHPWR and receives responses such as “That is a HUGE relief ...

When PCI-SIG introduced the 12VHPWR power connector as a replacement for the 6- and 8-pin PCIe power connectors, it created a wave of controversy. There were enough cases of melting GPUs, PSUs, and… ...

Issues with the new 12VHPWR power connector design for the latest PCIe 5.0-compliant graphics cards have seen a design flaw that apparently makes it extremely tricky to get electrical contacts ...

Notably, the failures can affect any cable or adapter using the 12VHPWR connector—this goes for both kinds of adapters that Nvidia and its partners have been using for 4090s so far, as well as ...

PCI-SIG's proposed changes to the 12VHPWR connector would include more shroud, and a gripping feature for the additional 4 data pins (the 16-pin connector has 12 pins for power, and 4 pins for data).

The troublesome 12VHPWR GPU connector that killed so many graphics cards could finally be consigned to history, as a new, safer component may soon replace it. Skip to main content.

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.