It’s easy to take your home electrical system for granted — until it stops working. No one wants to be without light, air ...

There's a new report about an Nvidia GeForce graphics card causing a power supply cable to melt, but this time it's not a high-end RTX 4090 or RTX 5090 GPU doing the damage but a much more modest ...

US team makes first step towards megawatts of power and nanosecond switching using diamond photoconductive switches In a recent publication in Applied Physics Letters, Can Bayram of the University of ...

leading to reports of melted power cables. A recent case involves the RTX 5070, where a damaged pin on the 12V-2x6 connector caused overheating. Investigations suggest the issue may stem from ...

Nvidia’s Blackwell GPU series is facing renewed scrutiny after an RTX 5070 owner reported a melted power cable. While these incidents remain rare, they highlight potential design flaws that ...

Nvidia first faced problems with melting power cables on the 2022 flagship, the RTX 4090. That card demanded 450W, which at the time was a new peak for high-end graphics cards. The connector was ...