New week, new RTX 50 meltdown story. Thankfully, this time, the damage was confined to the power adapter only, thus sparing the card. A Reddit user posted two images of a melted triple 8-pin to 16-pin adapter that powered their Gigabyte RTX 5080 Gaming OC. Further inspection revealed no damage to the GPU connectors, saving them the hassle of going through RMAs. Both the 15-year-old PSU in the user's system, which is non-ATX 3.0 compliant and the GPU's inherent faulty design have been blamed in this case. We also found another similar case involving an older PSU, too.
The images shared by Reddit user u/Appropriate-Hold-821 depict a melted triple 8-pin to 16-pin adapter and, luckily, no damage to the graphics card itself. As can be seen, the user powers their setup with the Corsair AX850 Gold, dating back to 2010. While Nvidia doesn't mandate an ATX 3.0/3.1 compliant PSU for the RTX 50 series, it is highly recommended. Outside of the 12VHPWR connector, the newer standards add plenty of additional safety improvements across the board, which this PSU lacks.
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