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The Melted Connector Nightmare Now Extends to Amd Gpus

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A Radeon RX 9070 XT user just posted photos of his partially melted power connector on Reddit. This is the first documented AMD case, but probably not the last. The 12VHPWR issue is spreading across all manufacturers. [Read more] If you want to receive the best Frandroid news on WhatsApp, join this discussion.
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A Radeon RX 9070 XT user just posted photos of his partially melted power connector on Reddit. This is the first documented AMD case, but probably not the last. The 12VHPWR issue is spreading across all manufacturers. [Read more] If you want to receive the best Frandroid news on WhatsApp, join this discussion.

For the first time, an AMD user reports a fused 12VHPWR connector on a Radeon RX 9070 XT. Up to now, such problems have occurred mainly on Nvidia cards. The incident shows once again that the connector design has basic flaws. (Continue reading)

A familiar issue is making a comeback, our colleagues at Wccftech report, this time on the red side: The first case of a melted 16-pin power connector on an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT was reported on Reddit. The affected user was using an ASRock Taichi OC variant of the card, which – unlike many other RX 9070 XT models – […] Source

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igor´sLAB broke the news in on Saturday, August 23, 2025.
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