NVIDIA RTX 5090 Gets Its Top Connector Row Cooked Despite A 500W Max Power Ceiling By The User

Someone's RTX 5090 scorched its adapter despite underclocking their TDP to try and play it safe

Last Updated on February 20, 2026 The RTX 5090 is currently the most expensive gaming GPU on the market. In many regions, prices are hovering close to $5,000, depending on the model and availability. It’s the card people buy when they want the absolute best. That is exactly why there is nothing worse than seeing ...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Melts 12V-2×6 Connector Despite -100 W Power Limit

The melting and burning 12V-2×6 connectors on high-end NVIDIA—and some AMD—GPUs is well documented at this point, and although there is mounting evidence to support the fact that the new connector standard itself is partially to blame, there is still the idea that high power draw is to blame for these meltdowns. This is not necessarily the case, according to one user of the Mobile01 forum. According to the forum post about the incident, the top …

NVIDIA RTX 5090 Gets Its Top Connector Row Cooked Despite A 500W Max Power Ceiling By The User

No matter what you do, the notorious 16-pin power connector won't be safe. This user was another victim of connector melting, but he tried to mitigate it beforehand. User Reports Burnt 16-pin Power Connector on GIGABYTE RTX 5090 Despite Restricting it to Consume No More Than 500W The amount of effort users have to put in just to keep their GPUs safe from connector melting now feel unsettling. It was never like this with the regular 6-pin or 8-pi…

Gamer Claims His GeForce RTX 5090 Capped At 500W Still Burned Its 16-Pin Connector

The GeForce RTX 4090 was known to have a problem with melting its 12VHPWR power connectors. In response to this issue, PCI-SIG modified the connector to create the revised 12V-2x6 plug. While this is an improvement, it doesn't help the fact that most GeForce graphics cards eschew any kind of active load balancing, and neither does the fact