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I Fixed the 5090’s Melting Power Connector...But YOU Shouldn't (2025x49)

Uitzenddatum: Mrt 20, 2025

It’s no wonder GeForce RTX 50-series Founder’s Edition power connectors are melting, what with nVidia insisting on using tiny little connectors, and THEN making matters worse by wiring them up in a way sure to make an electronics engineer cringe. We joked on the WAN show that someone should just use an XT60 connector to solve the problem!