I Solved Nvidia's Melting 5090 Problem...But YOU Shouldn't

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Visit https://www.squarespace.com/LTT and use offer code LTT for 10% off Get the most out of your graphics card and monitor with Silkland's VESA certified DisplayPort 2.1 cables using our links! Silkland DP80 Cables: https://lmg.gg/L6kCw Silkland Store: https://lmg.gg/dW8Zx It’s no wonder GeForce RTX 50-series Founder’s Edition power connectors are melting, what with nVidia insisting on using tiny little connectors, and THEN making matters worse by wiring them up in a way sure to make an electronics engineer cringe. We joked on the WAN show that someone should just use an XT60 connector to solve the problem! Then helpful viewer erg142 reminded us that we make videos where we do stupid things like that all the time, so here we are. Thanks erg142! For more on the 12VHPWR connector, check out this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1io4a67/an_electrical_eng Discuss on the forum: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1606023-i-fixed-the-5090%E2%80%99s-melting-power-connectorbut-you-shouldnt/ Buy a NVIDIA RTX 5090 graphics card: https://geni.us/IPFqORY Buy XT120 60A Large Current Battery Connectors: https://geni.us/RFIl ► GET OUR MERCH: https://lttstore.com ► GET EXCLUSIVE CONTENT ON FLOATPLANE: https://lmg.gg/lttfloatplane ► GET A VPN: http://www.piavpn.com/linus ► SPONSORS, AFFILIATES, AND PARTNERS: https://lmg.gg/partners Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group. CHAPTERS --------------------------------------------------- 0:00 Intro 1:35 THAT's the plan? 3:23 Here's the problem... 6:36 This might be tricky 9:10 I'm sorry you have to see this 11:40 PSU Mods? 13:06 Beep Equals Bad 14:09 It keeps getting worse 15:25 I can't watch, you guys are on your own... 21:00 Credits