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Nvidia power meltdowns hit 8-pin adaptors — old power supplies are the common factor

Summary by Tom's Hardware
A Reddit user's RTX 5080 narrowly avoided connector damage, with the 8-pin to 16-pin adapter absorbing the brunt of a meltdown.
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Today, a GeForce RTX 5080 GPU with a problem when the power connectors melt. Luckily, the connectors that have been burned are those of 8 pins that feed this graph by means of an adapter that converts several 8 pin connectors into one of 16 pins. It is that the luck of the user, is that they have been burned right at the junction of the original cables of the power supply and the adapter. Not thus affecting and damaging directly to the graph or …

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Tom's Hardware broke the news in on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.
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