The Infamous 12v-2x6 Connector Claims Another Victim, Rtx 5090 & Psu Connectors Burnt

Another GPU has been added to nan (possibly) agelong database of victims of nan problematic 12V-2×6 connector, arsenic Reddit personification Roachard posted their MSI RTX 5090 GAMING TRIO paper pinch visible harm connected nan 12-pin receptacle. As nan personification explains, this incident involves nary third-party cables, nor immoderate personification errors, and not moreover immoderate overclocks for that matter.

12V-2×6’s Problems Persist

The user’s setup is reasonably emblematic arsenic acold arsenic a high-end gaming PC is concerned, pinch an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D paired pinch nan aforementioned MSI GPU, on pinch Corsair’s SF1000L powerfulness proviso – which is simply a SFX portion pinch smaller footprint, but speech from somewhat little tin cooling capabilities pinch this benignant of shape factor, it should usability conscionable astir nan aforesaid arsenic a regular ATX balanced arsenic acold arsenic powerfulness transportation is concerned.

“I saw nan pouring cables posts and thought that I was safe if I stayed distant from civilization cables. Apparently its still not safe to usage nan original manufacturer’s cables,” nan personification said successful nan Reddit post. But nan harm didn’t extremity astatine nan GPU – moreover nan powerfulness proviso suffered damages caused by nan connector. According to nan user, nan bulge connected nan PSU connector is “melted integrative and what looks to beryllium a cablegram that is burnt white.”

Based connected nan images, it looks for illustration nan connector whitethorn person suffered from unbalanced load, pinch 1 burnt pin suggesting each nan powerfulness was sent to this cable, and nan deficiency of shunt resistors successful RTX 50 cards successful wide intends there’s nary measurement for nan paper to cognize if nan cablegram is misbehaving, frankincense causing nan connector to melt owed to precocious temperatures. (Only nan ASUS ROG Astral cards characteristic pin monitoring to alert users if nan load exceeds information margins.)

As HardwareLuxx editor Andreas Schilling said, nan 12V-2×6 connector “will everlastingly stay a anemic point” for this procreation of NVIDIA GPUs – contempt Team Green’s efforts of fixing nan connector pinch nan caller type iterated from nan original 12VHPWR standard, cases of pouring connectors proceed to emerge. Expect much cases to beryllium reported down nan statement arsenic location has been 5 confirmed cases successful conscionable 2 months, according to this Reddit thread.

Pokdepinion: Another 1 unluckily bites nan dust.