On: Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting

[Hamuko]

I had two AMD 7900 XTX and they both overheated like mad. Instant 110°C and throttle. Opted for a refund instead of a third GPU.

[shmerl → Hamuko]

Sapphire Nitro has a really nice heatsink for 7900 XTX. It works well even under full load.

[seanw444 → Hamuko]

Probably reference cards, yeah? I think the common advice is to not buy the reference cards. They rarely cool enough. I made that mistake with the RX 5700 XT, and will never again.

[mrguyorama → seanw444]

My 5700XT overheated constantly. It wasn't a reference card. The problem was that the default fan curve in the driver maxed out at 25%!

AMD is REALLY bad at software.

[Hamuko → seanw444]

Yeah, they were reference, direct from AMD's own store.

[bananadonkey → Hamuko]

Those had an issue with their heatpipe design which affected cooling performance depending on their orientation. I made sure to buy an AIB model that didn't suffer the same issue, just in case I want to put the card somewhere funky like a server rack.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/defective-vapor-chamber-ma...