Other than its vast price tag, one thing that put off many people buying an RTX 4090 graphics card was the fact that it had a tendency to melt its power cable if not fully inserted. The connector ...

And no, I don’t mean cutting back on the time you spend gaming or buying an exciting new graphics card. I’m talking about the one thing most PC builders dread: cable management.

Put away your pitchforks, the first report of an RTX 50-series graphics card melting a cable was actually down to an ol' RTX 4090 under load News By Andy Edser published 3 February 2025 ...

ASUS BTF ecosystem: motherboards, graphics cards, PC cases with hidden cables GeForce RTX 5090 power connector spotted at 150+ Celsius, prone to melting ASUS's first power cable-free GeForce RTX ...

Its sleek lines and bold colors are absolutely beautiful, but it's not just a pretty PC, it's an absolute powerhouse, powered by a high-spec Intel CPU and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card.

At last, the 5080 shows a hint of generational uplift here, with PC Mag clocking it nearly 3,000 points higher than the 4090 in an Adobe Premiere Pro 24 test conducted in PugetBench.

ASUS has said that even before the rise of windowed side panels, ever-so-careful cable management was the "cornerstone of gaming PC building," and they're right.

The connectors are burnt on both sides of the cable, which is something we haven't often seen in the RTX 4090 meltgate incidents. There's also damage to the Asus ROG Loki PSU. The graphics card ...