Customers of high-end Nvidia playing cards preserve operating into points involving the ability connectors. Regardless of efforts by producers corresponding to MSI to revamp the ability connectors to be safer, experiences proceed to roll in about failed connectors. This time, the fault is affecting even the redesigned 12V-2×6 connectors.
Early this 12 months, MSI introduced it had redesigned the RTX 50 sequence energy connector. The brand new cable sort has a yellow energy connector and makes use of the newer 12V-2×6 connection customary to assist make sure the adapter is totally secured and keep away from person error. This customary was created to interchange the 12VHPWR connector, which has been implicated in a number of incidents of graphics card cables melting or catching hearth, relationship again to the discharge of the RTX 4090.
Yellow-tipped cable nonetheless will get burned
In accordance with tech blogger harukaze5719 on Twitter/X, a person fell sufferer to a melted cable connector, regardless of utilizing the distinctive yellow-tipped 12V-2×6 connector. The publish refers to a publish on the Korean ‘Quazar Zone’ tech discussion board and identifies ‘One other sufferer’ with an image of a scorched-looking yellow connector.
In accordance with the publish on Quasar Zone, this connector had been plugged into an RTX 5090, probably the most highly effective shopper graphics card at the moment in the marketplace. The publish says they have been taking part in a 400W recreation for ‘about two hours’ and skilled a Blue Display screen error. After they turned off the system, they checked the GPU to search out the broken cable.
Issues proceed with each the 12V-2×6 connectors and the 12VHPWR cables. A number of high-end graphics playing cards nonetheless use the 12VHPWR energy connector, corresponding to one reported in the present day on Reddit, the place an RTX 4090 Gigabyte Gaming OC graphics card additionally ended up with a scorched and broken cable for an MSI PSU.
With so many incidents piling up involving 12VHPWR and its 12V-2×6 successor, many customers might now be fearful that their costly gaming rigs are ticking time bombs.
