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Second MSI RTX 5090 Seemed Fine On Arrival Until Safeguard+ Helped User Identify Uneven Load On Pins Before The Connector Melted

An MSI graphics card with RGB lighting is shown alongside a 'GPU Safeguard+' screen indicating '0.0A' current with a 'Normal' status.

MSI’s new Safeguard+ equipped power supply helped this user identify the problem his new RTX 5090 had. User Gets His RTX 5090 RMA’d, and Didn’t Had Any Errors, But Swapping the PSU Helped Him Knowing the Pin Not Carrying Any Current The typical problem associated with the 12V-2×6 connector is that it easily melts due to uneven load. Many vendors have tried to mitigate the problem since it has caused the deaths of probably thousands of RTX 50-series GPUs, especially the RTX 5090, which is rated at a much higher power. From cables with built-in sensors to monitoring devices, we […]

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