There’s a brand new report about an Nvidia GeForce graphics card inflicting an influence provide cable to soften, however this time it’s not a high-end RTX 4090 or RTX 5090 GPU doing the injury however a way more modest RTX 5070. The RTX 5070 melting cable was reported by a Japanese purchaser who documented the injury accomplished by the cardboard and cable mixture on their X (previously Twitter) account.
The person reveals photos and video of an RTX 5070 – which is presently Nvidia‘s greatest graphics card for these looking for a mid-range card – together with the PC it was put in in, full with a melted cable. Nonetheless, whereas there are nonetheless causes to be considerably involved in regards to the ongoing troubles with the 12VHPWR/12V-2×6 commonplace utilized by these playing cards, on this occasion the fault largely appears to be from person error or a producing error from the Zotac graphics card.
Within the first video posted by X person, ere9w, they present their PC case with the aspect panel eliminated and describe how numerous smoke got here out of their PC solely two seconds after turning it on. They then zoom in to point out the plastic sheathing spherical one of many particular person energy provide cable conductors having melted throughout virtually its complete size. They go one to say that they checked the plug’s connection to the cardboard completely and all of it appears to be seated appropriately.
Nonetheless, in a comply with up video and collection of photographs, ere9w reveals the plug of the 12V-2×6 connector, which reveals what seems to be the seemingly reason for the melting. One of many sense pins – the small pins used to ship a sign somewhat than the thick pins used to ship energy – within the graphics card cable’s plug seems to be misaligned.
The precise trigger hasn’t been verified but – ere9w stories the cardboard is again with the producer being investigated – however feedback on the Twitter thread speculate that this pin may very well be shorting with one of many 12V energy conductors. Regardless, it definitely seems that there’s some proof of bodily injury earlier than the melting, which might have occurred at manufacture or when the cable was plugged in. Both means, this barely pulls the main focus away from this being the fault of the cable or the GPU.
Nonetheless, after so a few years of dangerous press for the 12V-2×6 connector, it’s one more instance of the way it maybe isn’t essentially the most strong and user-error-resistant system. That mentioned, stories of points on lower-power playing cards such because the RTX 5070 are vanishingly uncommon and all of us nonetheless usually use playing cards powered by these connectors.
One such card is the RTX 4080 Tremendous that I presently use whereas even a number of RX 9070 XT playing cards have switched to the connector.
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