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Product

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 OC 32GB GDDR7 PCIe 5.0

Category

PC Component

Report number

20250211-87184-2147333271

Ownership age

Not stated

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20250211-87184-2147333271. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 OC 32GB GDDR7 PCIe 5.0. Source model text: 5090 FE. Incident: The Nvidia 12 volt high power connector can cause enough heat buildup to melt the plastic connectors at the ends of the cable where they plug into both the GPU and the power supply. The inividual cables can also heat up so much that the plastic insulation around the cables melt. This is a serious fire hazard, and likely will result in house fires putting human lives at risk.

This is a consumer incident report published on SaferProducts.gov. CPSC does not guarantee the accuracy of information submitted by people outside of CPSC. It is not automatically an official recall or manufacturer admission.
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Official report number: 20250211-87184-2147333271. Search that ID on SaferProducts.gov or match it in the CPSC public database export to verify this record.