The editor-in-chief of DSOGaming, a PC gaming news website, has just suffered an RTX 5090 power connector meltdown, despite claiming that it was fully inserted into the graphics card. According to John Papadopoulos, the incident happened while he was playing Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, when he noticed a strange smell in his room. He could not determine the source of the scent until he opened his PC case and realized that it was coming from his high-end GPU.
Many PC enthusiasts are aware of the melting power connectors that Nvidia has been contending with since the RTX 40-series. However, Papadopoulos says that this is the first time he has had to deal with such an issue with an RTX 50-series GPU. Because of this, he says that he has always been careful to ensure that the connector is always fully seated in the GPU before firing it up, and that he only uses the cable that comes with it. He even goes as far as keeping the power connector attached to the GPU when removing it from his PC case, to help reduce the chance of it loosening.
