[STEAM] Another AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT card just melted, no longer just an Nvidia issue

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An owner of a Sapphire Nitro+ AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card has just reported a burned up power cable, showing that this problem isn't just limited to high-powered Nvidia graphics cards such as the GeForce RTX 5090. There is one feature this AMD card has in common with similarly fried Nvidia cards, though, and that's its power connector - it uses a 16-pin 12VHPWR socket, rather than the 6/8-pin sockets usually used by AMD graphics cards.

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9070 XT currently tops our guide to buying the

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, thanks to its excellent performance and 16GB allocation of VRAM, and many of the cards based on this AMD GPU use standard 8-pin power sockets. There are some notable exceptions, though. One is this

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card, and another is the ASRock Taichi card that we tested for our

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, which has also had a

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incident.

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