- A small number of RTX 5090 overheating and fusion feed cable reports have been confirmed
- This follows generalized reports of similar problems with the previous RTX 4090
- However, third -party cables may blame this time
Do you remember ‘Cablegate’? At the end of 2022, users began to report that the energy connectors of their Nvidia RTX 4090 graphics cards were overheated and essentially melted in unusable pieces of plastic RTX 5090.
Now, I covered the cablegate fiasco When the story was in its peak, and at that time, it was willing to assign at least some part of the guilt to Nvidia, since the PCIE Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) had previously published a report that warns about the ” Thermal variance ‘Risks with respect to the 12VHPWR adapter used for RTX 4090. This time, however, I am not really so sure that Nvidia is to blame.
To begin with, the problems seem much less extended than with RTX 4090; while there were literally dozens of reports in 2022 (which He continued until 2024), we have only seen two confirmed isolated cases of cable fusion regarding RTX 5090. The first came from a Reddit userWhile the second was reported by the Spanish YouTube channel Toccho bull reviews. Both reported the same problem: the power cable overheated and melted in both It ends, something that we did not see in most of the failures of the RTX 4090 connector.
Secondly, it was confirmed that the first of these cases had involved a third -party supplier cable of the Moddiy PC provider, introducing a new potential failure. Nvidia has now moved to the 12V-2 × 6 connection standard for more stable power delivery and safer pin connections, and although Moddiy states that their cables admit the new standard, the Reddit user declared that he had been using this Cable for two years with an RTX 4090. Back compatibility with the 12 VHPWR third -party cables is likely to continue a problem for NVIDIA GPUs; especially, Moddiy now has A page on your website Advise buyers with RTX 5000-series GPU to buy new cables for 2015 12V-2 × 6.
So is there really a problem?
In other words, at least one of these cases of cable fusion seems to have been caused by the user’s error: the 12 VHPWR cable that melted, despite being physically compatible with the RTX 5090, presumably could not handle the delivery of energy Nvidia’s last flagship GPU is a hungry girl, after all, with an obscene TDP of 575W.
The PC modders will modify, of course, but given the problems known to the previous generation card supplier, personally it would be very I reluctant to use anything but the cables supplied in the box at this point. TO Reddit Megathread On the subject it has been created to compile additional cases, and there is a good amount of debate in the comments on whether NVIDIA is to blame or if users must be more care to avoid third -party cables, even if they claim to be compatible. .
Naturally, I contacted my contact in Nvidia to ask for a quote, but Team Green declined to comment, not even a ‘we are investigating’, instead, instead, he told me the warning of the Moddiy page about the use of cables older 12VHPWR. It seems that Nvidia feels safer this time, which further reinforces the idea that the cases we have seen so far were not caused by the GPU them, but third -party hardware.
It is still possible that we are only at the beginning of a tide of similar reports, given the Extremely limited availability of RTX 5090 at launchWe could still see the total scope of the problem, since only a small number of users has managed to have the GPU in their hands.
Even so, we must not reach conclusions. Two cases (with some more unconfirmed) are not exactly the ride of problems we saw after the launch of RTX 4090, so there are many possibilities that these problems are not generalized. Yes you were The luck of hooking one of the new flagship of Nvidia, my only advice is this: Stay with the cables supplied for now! If you have thoughts about this, do not hesitate to tell me what genius/idiot I am in our new brilliant comments section below. Frankly, I would love to chat with someone who really managed to buy one of these cards …
