An X user published videos of an RTX 5070 that have been encountered Most familiar matter of cable melting. According to reports, a latest 12V-2 × 6 power cable is involved, as contrary to the old but close-related 12VHPWR cable, which is a problem.
For the record, the card in question was a Zotak RTX 5070 model in which the seasonal fox GX 750 was paired with a power supply. It is worth noting that it was a cable that has no graphics card here nor has it, apparently, the power connector or the socket has done unclear damage.
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It is easily familiar with the investigation by YouTube creator Der 8 Over earlier this year, where it has been found that the 12V-2 × 6 and 12VHPWR connectors linked to the NVIDIA RTX-50 series have high power imbalance in more than one cable.
Der 8 Auer tested six living cables on contacts in which the RTX is bent up to 5090 and has found that the strength in all six wires is not equally balanced. In fact, only one wire was filled with 250W and thus created almost half the burden of HALF through 5090.
As a result, this heavy -filled wire was becoming alarmingly heating. An RTX 5070 is clearly a very low -powerful GPU, which is ratified compared to the 575W of 5090 WTDP, but if a 5070 is pulling something close to all 250 W or a single wire, okay, you get the idea.
Because it is exactly why it is, in other words, because power is not divided more equally on the cables, I explained back in February, “Some AIBRTX 5090 designs include per pin power sensing, which will soon prevent such power imbalances.”
If there is usually the same approach to engineering in RTX 5070, it is possible that some 5070 cards can also pursue excessive power through the same cable, which causes the cable to cause more heat.
In fact, none of this has a lot of meaning. The whole point of keeping multiple wires is, of course, the burden. Then to engineer the connection in a manner that shows that the built -in safety element looks very strange, at least.
It is also a problem that it is a 12V-2 × 6 power cable that is involved with its updates, which is designed to solve all the stories of 12VHPWR connector melting on NVIDIA graphics cards that are from 2022. This sophisticated power supply hardware applies to the latest GPU technology.
Of course, this can be a very isolated event that does not mean a wider problem. But where a high -performance gaming is smoke in the PC, the quick offender is not necessarily a fire in a NVIDIA GPU, but those electric cables and sockets are certainly suspected.
