Nvidia RTX 5090 graphics card power cable melts at both ends, bulge spotted at PSU side

Facepalm: Imagine getting ahead of the scalpers and securing a $3,000+ RTX 5090, only for the connectors on the card and cable to melt. There has been yet another one of these incidents reported, with both ends of the 12VHPWR, the card, and the PSU all showing burn damage. The latest case, reported by a Redditor called Roachard, involved an MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC. He bought the card from Best Buy about a month ago for just over $3,000 and paired it with a Corsair SF1000L on an Asus Strix B650E-I motherboard. That PSU is an 80 Plus Platinum, ATX 3.0-compliant power supply that sells for $230 on Amazon – not a cheap, underpowered model, basically. Roachard says the cable was plugged directly into the PSU. No extensions were used and he wasn't overclocking the RTX 5090. He initially thought the damage was only on the GPU side – both the cable and card connectors – but there was also damage to the PSU end. There's a worryingly large bulge in the connector plugged into the power sup ... Read full article.