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$5,245 prebuilt RTX 5090 PC's connectors melt after sitting boxed for a year

October 3

When a PC gamer's GPU with a 12VHPWR or 12V-2x6 power connector melts, it's often in a computer they built by hand, and they typically only have one chance at recourse — hoping their GPU is under…

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