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minus-square.Donuts@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-213 days agoThe person on reddit used a third party cable instead of the one supplied with the device. https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/psa-dont-use-third-party-power-cables-on-your-2000-nvidia-rtx-5090-gpu https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1ilhfk0/rtx_5090fe_molten_12vhpwr/ It melted on both sides (PSU and GPU), which indicates it was probably the cable being the issue. 12VHPWR is a fucking mess, so please don’t tempt fate with your expensive purchase.
minus-squareTunaLobster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 days agohttps://youtu.be/Ndmoi1s0ZaY https://youtu.be/kb5YzMoVQyw It’s poor design on Nvidias part. There is no load balancing.
minus-squareInnerScientist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-211 days agoSo, when is the first party cable going to be launched? The device only hast an adapter shipped with it, which won’t help you connect to the PSU 12VHPWR.
The person on reddit used a third party cable instead of the one supplied with the device.
https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/psa-dont-use-third-party-power-cables-on-your-2000-nvidia-rtx-5090-gpu
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1ilhfk0/rtx_5090fe_molten_12vhpwr/
It melted on both sides (PSU and GPU), which indicates it was probably the cable being the issue.
12VHPWR is a fucking mess, so please don’t tempt fate with your expensive purchase.
https://youtu.be/Ndmoi1s0ZaY
https://youtu.be/kb5YzMoVQyw
It’s poor design on Nvidias part. There is no load balancing.
So, when is the first party cable going to be launched? The device only hast an adapter shipped with it, which won’t help you connect to the PSU 12VHPWR.