You probably never witnessed something like this. The notorious 16-pin connector can surprise you in ways you cannot even imagine. User Finds a Large Hole in 16-pin Connector After Playing a Decade Old Indie Title on Max Settings on RTX 5090 Who would have thought that the 16-pin power connector is so capable that it can merge two individual ports together? Perhaps, if you can game hard enough, you might accidentally create a new design on your RTX 5090's connector. The Redditor u/UnpluggedUnfettered never thought that playing an indie game would result in such a horrible incident. Unlike the usual […]

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Even the workarounds are failing to protect the 16-pin connectors from melting, as we see a user complaining about ASRock's high-end Taichi PSU. User Reports Melted 16-pin Connector on ASRock Taichi TC1650T PSU Despite Using a 16-pin Connector Cable With NTC Sensor "Truly Space Age Engineering from ASRock", says the Reddit user u/ScientiEtRatio91 after witnessing a 16-pin connector failure with a setup that was powered by ASRock's latest high-end PSU. The Redditor describes the incident that caused the connector to melt on the PSU side, even though the PSU and connector cable feature temperature monitoring. If you remember, it has […]

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No matter what you do, the notorious 16-pin power connector won't be safe. This user was another victim of connector melting, but he tried to mitigate it beforehand. User Reports Burnt 16-pin Power Connector on GIGABYTE RTX 5090 Despite Restricting it to Consume No More Than 500W The amount of effort users have to put in just to keep their GPUs safe from connector melting now feel unsettling. It was never like this with the regular 6-pin or 8-pin PCIe connectors, but the notorious 16-pin connector cannot just run without running into issues, despite numerous mitigation attempts by some manufacturers […]

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