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Hardware

PNY reportedly denies a warranty claim on a melted RTX 5090 over a PSU cable its support called fine

Melted Rtx 5090, Claim Denied: Pny Blames The Psu Cable

PNY's reply, as the owner posted it, covers only the bundled adapter, but another owner who asked was told the PSU's own cable is fine. A DLSS 5 test pushed an RTX 5090's connector to 91.7°C.

Saeid Yazdani
September 28, 2026

Hardware

Three 8-Pin Cables Carried 900 Watts Into an RTX 5090

Close-up of braided 8-pin power cables plugged into a dark GPU; headline THREE 8-PIN CABLES CARRIED 900 WATTS

A stripped-down Galax RTX 5090 ran to 900W on three ordinary 8-pin connectors with the wires at 35 degrees C, and a second modder finally built the 16GB RTX 3070 Ti that NVIDIA never shipped.

Saeid Yazdani
September 11, 2026

Hardware

A Thermal Cutoff in the 12V-2×6 Cable, a 1,000 Hz Panel, and B450’s Return

Twelve connector cells in two rows of six, the exact 12V-2x6 power-pin count, with one overheating pin in red and its neighbours in amber.

Corsair puts a thermal switch inside the 12V-2x6 cable, LG's 1,000 Hz UltraGear needs a DisplayPort 2.1 card before anything else, and Gigabyte quietly lists new B450 boards for DDR4 holdouts.

Saeid Yazdani
August 24, 2026