[STEAM] An Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card power socket has already melted

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Less than two weeks after its release, the first report of a melting Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 has surfaced online. While a third-party power cable was used, it's unclear right now what caused the fault, with the graphics card, power supply, and GPU power cable all suffering from damage.

It's unfortunate timing, however, coming just weeks after

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made claims about the

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, saying that it "didn't expect" a repeat of issues with

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to reoccur with the RTX 50-series. That's despite the new

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on the market drawing even more power than the RTX 4090 it replaces, with a 125W power draw increase compared to the older card.

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