Another Nvidia RTX 5090 cable melts despite MSI's "foolproof" yellow-tipped GPU connector

What just happened? News that another power cable connector melted while plugged into an RTX 5090 is becoming more common these days. What is unusual in this case, however, is that it's the second one involving MSI's supposedly foolproof solution to the problem. Redditor VersauteGurke explains in a post that he'd been experiencing an issue in which his monitor suddenly turned off and showed a "DisplayPort not connected" message. After attempting a series of potential fixes, including reinstalling the driver, VersauteGurke discovered that the cable connector had partly melted. Thankfully for the user, the very expensive RTX 5090 graphics card was fine, with no visible damage to the port or pins. The power supply being used was a Corsair HX1500i 1500W, so a lack of power wasn't an issue. An interesting extra detail of this incident is that the cable being used was one of MSI's yellow-tipped models. The company was one of the first to ship PSU/graphics card 12V-2x6 power leads with pl ... Read full article.