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Tom’s Hardware
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Jowi Morales

Melting RTX cables solution proposed — embed over temperature and current protection on each wire

Cybenetics Nvidia
Melted power connector for RTX 5080 on PSU side.

Nvidia’s RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs are facing serious melting connector cables issues, a repeat of the incidents involving RTX 4090 GPUs which the company has previously claimed has already been addressed. However, the number of reports surfacing in recent weeks suggest that that is not the case, so hardware testing group Hardware Busters is proposing two solutions: embed an over-temperature or over-current protection circuit (or both) in the 12V-2x6 cables used by these high-powered GPUS.

Hardware Busters is headed by Aris Mpitziopoulos, who’s also the CEO and Chief Testing Engineer of Cybenetics and established the Cybenetics PSU Certification Program. He has also worked with Tom’s Hardware as a contributing editor for Power Supplies.

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