A new 16-pin power connector able to deliver up to 600W of power, what should have been an interesting footnote in the transition to a new standard, became one of the defining parts of the flagship ...

After the issues with NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPUs ending up with melting power connectors, the last thing anyone likely expected to happen was to see the same problem pop up with NVIDIA’s RTX 50-series GPUs.

Note: Just to be clear, this new connector is the one NVIDIA is using on its GeForce RTX 40 SUPER series graphics cards -- the updated 12V-2x6 power connector-- which MLID says NVIDIA is mandating on ...