Other than its huge price ticket, one factor that delay many individuals shopping for an RTX 4090 graphics card was the truth that it had a bent to soften its energy cable if not totally inserted. The connector has been revised for the brand new RTX 50-series playing cards however MSI has taken a leaf from its personal books and included a brand new adapter cable for its Blackwell GPUs that takes all of the guesswork out of questioning when you’ve clicked issues in correctly.
The melting connector drawback with the RTX 4090 was all the way down to a lot of elements: the design of the 12VHPWR socket, the shoddy high quality of some adapter cables, and the truth that it wasn’t simple to inform when you had the cable totally inserted. With the RTX 5090 utilizing as much as 150 W extra energy than the RTX 4090, issues of a repeat of meltgate are greater than comprehensible.
Fortunately, there’s excellent news on that entrance. First of all, all the new RTX 50-series playing cards use the revised 12V-2×6 connector, which has adjusted pin lengths to make sure that the GPU can solely draw full energy if the cable is pushed all the way in which into the socket. But if that is not sufficient for you, you then may need to take a nosey at what MSI’s providing with its new Blackwell graphics playing cards (through Videocardz).
Its RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 Ti playing cards all include adapter cables (8-pin sockets to a 12V-2×6 connector) that sport a system that MSI has used earlier than with a few of its PSUs. Essentially, the plastic across the 12V-2×6 pins is shiny yellow, so when you can see any trace of the color after you have jammed the cable into the cardboard, you recognize it isn’t seated appropriately.
The RTX 5070 does not get this function, presumably as a result of MSI deems that its energy consumption (250 W TGP) is not excessive sufficient to generate any sort of melty-melty motion. On the opposite hand, the others draw a good bit greater than this, so the yellow plastic is warranted—for reference, the RTX 5070 Ti has a 300 W TGP (complete graphics energy), the RTX 5080 is 360 W, and the RTX 5090 is a whopping 575 W.
Many of MSI’s newest PSUs already sport this function on the devoted 12VHPWR/12V-2×6 cable so it is good that it is introduced the system throughout to the adapter cables. Other producers have taken extra advanced approaches to combating melty-there-goes-$2,000, similar to warning lights for an incorrect connection, however I a lot choose MSI’s ‘when you can see yellow, it ain’t gonna be mellow’ simplicity.
Whether it is sufficient to allay fears of pulling nearly 50 A of present with an RTX 5090, by means of such a small connector, is one other matter totally.
