Many of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 & 5090D GPUs turn into bricks, probably due to problems with the driver, bios or pcie

The problem with the connector was always a mistake in the user. Passing to 12V-2×6 instead of 12VHPWR can give a little more tolerance to the user’s error, but the right thing to do is simply to make sure that the cable is placed correctly and without significant power of the side force of the connector.

I disagree with this a little.

It’s a bit like apples “keep it wrong”.

Now my 4090 has the original 12vhpwr and I never had a problem but I was very much Be careful during installation and made sure that the connector was completely inserted and there was no stress on the cable at all, but as a user you should not expect to expect to be super careful with these things so that they would not burst into flames. They must be designed with the user in view of the resistance to the expected use of real life.

If a typical user cannot use something without an increased risk of damage, then it is a damage damage.

Again until I had any problems alone if I had a choice I would very much They have a long line of traditional 8pin PCIe connectors than a single flimsy VHPWR connector. They are healthy, healthy and have withstood the test of time. At least 4 of them will be needed to properly power 5090, but I will handle it.

Or the hell, here’s another idea. Why don’t you just use 12V (EPS) power cord for GPU? They can provide 336W each. Only two of them will be needed to properly power 5090, and they are also super healthy. (The only disadvantage is that – besides the keys – they look a little too much like 8 -pine PCIe power connectors and some fool would probably try to accumulate the wrong connector there.

Quite frankjly, I have the feeling that the people of ATX (whoever they are. IEEE?) Fucked this for a long time. They should be diverted with one (or, well two, 4pin and 8pin) universal type of power connector. 4PIN EPS for 192W of connector and 8pin EPS for 336 watts per connector.

Creating a difference between PCIe power and motherboard power was a stupid idea. PSU and PC power would be much fading if we had to worry about only one type of connector. And if EPS connectors can provide the more power of Pincount, those must be the ones we have gone with.