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, ...

Unfortunately, the launch of the $1,600 GPU has been marred by multiple reports of melting 12VHPWR connectors used in the cards damaging both the connector and the GPUs at times. Reports of ...

Today we're reviewing the RTX 5090 GameRock, featuring a bold, eye-catching design and a fat - effectively quad-slot - cooler. Concerns around pricing and availability remain just as pressing as they ...

In theory, RTX 50-series cards could have per-pin power sensing to stop such variation, but not all do and apparently even Nvidia's own Founders Edition RTX 5090 design doesn't ha ...

A Redditor recently posted their escapades of how their yellow-tipped MSI 12VHPWr power cable burned out while in use with an ...

NVIDIA has recently released their lineup of 40-series graphics cards, with a novel generation of power connectors called 12VHPWR. See, the previous-generation 8-pin connectors were no longer ...

The 12VHPWR power cable issues strike again. The 12VHPWR power cable issues strike again. Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft ...

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 ...

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card has been in the headlines for many reasons over the last few months, but one of the more controversial reasons is it uses the new 12VHPWR power connector ...

A Chinese manufacturer has come up with a 12VHPWR adapter featuring active cooling and real-time power monitoring, aiming to mitigate concerns of melting GPU power connectors. The unique angled ...

The failure that Gamers Nexus was able to re-create in its labs involved connecting the 12VHPWR power connector to an RTX 4090 without inserting it fully and then bending the cable to one side ...

The 12VHPWR graphics card connector has made a name for itself for all the wrong reasons, with the component frequently melting and causing the death of many a GPU. Now, graphics card ...