Moddiy has warned users against using its older 12VHPWR-rated power cables with RTX 50-series products. It recommends only using its cables manufactured in 2025.

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The reformulated standard has pins of slightly different lengths. Improperly inserted power cables were blamed for the 2022 incidents, prompting the new cable socket design to prevent such issues.

So far, there are no known cases of RTX 5090 power connectors melting with the included adapter. NVIDIA is now shipping the cards with a newer adapter ...

The latest power cables have been redesigned to meet the 12V-2x6 standard, addressing the increased power requirements of Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs. Unlike older cables based on the original ...

Extra cooling components on 16-pin adapters demonstrate that the standard is fragile compared to 8-pin and 6-pin connectors.

So far, it’s unclear if this is a widespread issue or just a few users who didn’t fully seat their connectors. Two people have reported the issue so far, and it looks identical to the RTX 4090 issue ...