Even MSI's custom, yellow 12V-2x6 power connectors aren't enough to stop Nvidia's RTX 5090s from occasionally burning their ...

The 12VHPWR connector (and its 12V-2x6 successor) is notorious for their vulnerability to high temperatures on power-hungry ...

When PCI-SIG introduced the 12VHPWR power connector as a replacement for the 6- and 8-pin PCIe power connectors, it created a wave of controversy. There were enough cases of melting GPUs ...

Thermal Grizzly unveiled its WireView Pro 2, a device that monitors the current and temperature of the 12VHPWR power ...

A Redditor recently posted their escapades of how their yellow-tipped MSI 12VHPWr power cable burned out while in use with an ...

Unfortunately, the launch of the $1,600 GPU has been marred by multiple reports of melting 12VHPWR connectors used in the cards damaging both the connector and the GPUs at times. Reports of ...

A Chinese manufacturer has come up with a 12VHPWR adapter featuring active cooling and real-time power monitoring, aiming to mitigate concerns of melting GPU power connectors. The unique angled ...

The New 12VHPWR Connector It’s this last issue—having too many cables in play—that the new 12VHPWR connector chiefly works to overcome.This is especially the case for graphics cards, as all ...

Though the fervor around melting graphics cards using the new 16-pin 12VHPWR connectors for PCIe 5.0-compliant graphics cards has died down as of late, no one would blame you for feeling a bit ...

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card has been in the headlines for many reasons over the last few months, but one of the more controversial reasons is it uses the new 12VHPWR power connector ...

NVIDIA has recently released their lineup of 40-series graphics cards, with a novel generation of power connectors called 12VHPWR. See, the previous-generation 8-pin connectors were no longer ...