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Nvidia's Incendiary 12VHPWR Connector Consumes Its Latest Victim — Chinese RTX 3060 Ti Melts Down Despite Modest Power Draw After ASUS Shipped It with the Wrong Cable

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Wherever the 12VHPWR connector goes, it brings death with it. The latest in the series of murders is a measly RTX 3060 Ti from China.
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It turns out that even less powerful video cards, compared to flagships, are not immune to the risk of overheating due to the 12VHPWR connector. In particular, such a problem arose with the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti model with a consumption of about 200 watts. Photo by Videocardz The story was told by a user on the Baidu forum. As you know, RTX 3060 Ti are usually equipped with traditional power connectors, but we are talking about... The post Even th…

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News from HD Technology. Visit www.hd-tecnologia.com for the latest news. It looks like a joke, but it isn’t, a RTX 3060 Ti ended up with the melted power connector in China because of an unusual error, ASUS sent the wrong cable. And we’re not talking about a plate that requires a nuclear source to work, but a mid-range GPU that, under normal conditions, consumes some tranqui 310W. A RTX 3060 Ti that is triggered The affected model is the ASUS M…

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Today we come across the first case of a die-cast connector in a low-end graphic such as the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. And this problem happened specifically with an ASUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X Megalodon, an exclusive model for the Chinese market that was launched in October 2022. As you have already imagined, the particularity of this custom model is that it did not resort to an 8 pin PCI-Express standard connector. But to a new and more modern …

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The incidents related to the 12VHPWR connector are no longer limited to high-end graphics cards. This time, it is a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti that has undergone a spectacular meltdown of its power cable despite its moderate consumption of 200 to 250 watts. One case especially surprising as this type of problem usually concerns [...] Read more A GeForce RTX 3060 Ti equipped with a 12VHPWR connector melted in a rare case appeared first on HardwareCookin…

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HardwareCooking broke the news in on Thursday, July 3, 2025.
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