User reports melted power cable on an RTX 5070 and now we're wondering if any RTX 50-series GPU is safe (www.pcgamer.com)

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[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I mean it's a fundamental design issue with how they link all of the 12V lines into a single line on the board itself. Unless Nvidia changes that as part of the reference drawings, you're not going to be able to mitigate this.

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