Nvidia RTX 5070 cable melts in latest Blackwell card incident: another case of user error?

WTF?! There's been another melting incident involving a Blackwell graphics card. While the previous cases mostly resulted in damaged RTX 5090 cable connectors and sockets, this latest one saw part of the cable itself melt, and the card in question was an RTX 5070. X user @ere9w posted videos and images of his brand-new system, which includes a Zotac RTX 5070 graphics card and a Seasonic Focus GX-750 power supply. Most of the melting reports we've seen in the past have involved the connectors, but in this instance, it was part of the cable that melted. VideoCardz writes that the cable was the newer ATX 3.1 design with 12V-2x6 connectors. It appears that a single wire has melted and the connectors on the PSU and GPU sides did not show the same heat damage. It's likely that the problem stemmed from the RTX 5070. A close-up photo of the card's power socket shows that one of the pins is not visible – it has either bent or been pushed back. Whether this was a manufacturing error such as ... Read full article.