One RTX 5090 was already a ticking time bomb for the 12VHPWR power connector, as the latter has been the weakest link of the GPU, so imagine how much stress four of these graphics cards will be inflicting on the connectors? Quite a bit, as one owner shows that his incredibly powerful LLM rig melted the main power plug and the socket, but that was also because a 13A fuse was the only safety measure used, and it clearly succumbed to the raw power throughput of the quad-RTX 5090 configuration. At maximum load, all four RTX 5090 GPUs can consume a […]
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