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Another RTX 5090 has run into problems of blue screens and damaged cables, and in this case despite the user connecting it using MSI's yellow-tipped power cables ...

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Here we (maybe) go again: Reports from a handful of early adopters of Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card are reporting that their power cables are melting (so far, there’s at least one report ...