News Veteran reviewer’s RTX 5090 Founders Edition GPU falls victim to 16-pin meltdown — user admits it could have been user error despite having tested...

[Eximo]

I wonder why they do not have a 16 pin PCIE connector as standard now. Aka join 2 PCIE8 for compatibility, do double for high power cards.. still compatible, etc..etc..

They do have that, it is called multiple 8-pin. There are cards that take 3. No reason to combine them as then you would run into the case of needing only an 8-pin and having a 16pin connector. Either every card would have to make room (the opposite of what they want) or the cable would need be splitable, which they already are...

EPS does better because it carries an additional 12V wire vs the 3 of the 8-pin. Also already an existing standard used in the server space. Plenty of fanless GPUs that use a single EPS cable in datacenters.

 

[spongiemaster]

I have a modded ps3 psu who gives 40amp for a short time and 32 amp continously on a 8 pin cable. Still working almost ten years of abuse.

Connector 150w / abusing 480w / 384w soft use

There is video of a guy jumping out of a balloon that's 24 miles up. He survived just fine. I would not recommend most people do that. Your one example is meaningless in the context of a commercial product used by millions in unpredictable conditions. Last time I checked 450W and 600W is more than 384W. So it isn't even a relevantly comparable situation.

 

[Amdlova]

There is video of a guy jumping out of a balloon that's 24 miles up. He survived just fine. I would not recommend most people do that. Your one example is meaningless in the context of a commercial product used by millions in unpredictable conditions. Last time I checked 450W and 600W is more than 384W. So it isn't even a relevantly comparable situation.

Yes but... the 150W connector it's not melting with 384w. But the 600w connector it's melting with 300W - 400W Something is wrong.
I don't want to pay a new connector and work involved after play some game.

Last time I see some 8 pin connector melting it's a amd 295x2 :

Nvidia ? Everyday born another S. To say this will never happen to me.