
It’s been a while since we’ve last had any new reports about Nvidia’s RTX 4090 power connectors melting, but the issue hasn’t exactly been addressed. For now, this recommendation could prove to be useful to Nvidia. With only Arc Alchemist cards out, it will be a long while before Intel has to worry about this, but it will eventually need to prepare. Intel itself doesn’t have any graphics cards that use this connector yet - it really doesn’t need a 12+4-pin connector that can supply up to 600 watts of power to the graphics card.


“Crimp Contacts inside of the cable plug are recommended to use the 4-spring design instead of 3-dimple design, which will increase the contact area for electrical current flow inside the 12VHWPR connector and reduce the temperature rise of each contact,” said Intel.
