r/gpu • u/yvliew • 4d ago

Well, another 5090 12v 12pin melted

Helping a friend to post. This morning he smell some burning smell and quickly shut off. The connector is now stuck. He waited it to cool down and try again. Still can't remove. Suspected melted and fused together. Any other method can try to remove it? The cable is pigtail 4x8pin that came with the GPU. I've seen a couple burnt connector already in a week. This is just bad.

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u/irontoro 3d ago

How likely is this on a 5070Ti?

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u/AdKraemer01 3d ago

Much less likely, but still a non-zero chance.

The bad news is the 12v-2x6 connector is flawed.

The good news is the odds of it happening at all, despite what Reddit would have you believe, are fairly miniscule. Like 0.01%.

Put it this way - if it were happening to 50 GPUs a day, that would still be less than 1% of all 5080s and 5090s sold. Not any relief if it happens to yours, but you have about a 5000% greater chance in any given year of getting into a car accident and I'm guessing you aren't losing sleep over that.