MSI's Yellow Power Connector Has Another GeForce RTX 5090 Induced Meltdown

News extracted from HD Technology. Visit www.hd-tecnologia.com for the latest news. Although we are in full 2025 and 16 pin power connectors should be almost perfect, overheating problems and burned cables continue to affect high-end GPU users such as the GeForce RTX 5090. The most recent case involves a user with a modern MSI source that, despite having improvements to avoid installation errors, ended with a melted cable. This latest generation…

MSI's Yellow Power Connector Has Another GeForce RTX 5090 Induced Meltdown

In the words of Queen, Another One Bites The Dust. There's a user report of one more GeForce RTX 5090 power cable suffering a nasty case of heatstroke, this time around an MSI yelllow-tipped connector. The original report came from Reddit user VersauteGurke, who's running a chonky MSI GeForce RTX 5090 in his machine, powered by a Corsair

With the arrival of the new graphics cards, we see how NVIDIA repeats the use of the 16 pins in its GPU. We already saw that the RTX 40 were burned and the cables were melted, so in the RTX 50 we see that the same thing happens, even when it went from using 12VHPWR to 12V-2x6. AMD, instead, did not want to follow this path and continued using the 8 pins in its new graphics. While this was a decision that the players appreciated, MSI released sou…