The 16-pin yellow-tipped connector adapter doesn't spare any GPU, and it's time when gamers should totally avoid it.

MSI Gaming Trio OC Falls Victim to MSI's 16-pin Adapter; User Reports GPU Death at "Idle" State

The 16-pin connector melting cases keep piling up, and we have seen at least plenty of them in the last week. However, the most common are those setups that utilize MSI's yellow-tipped 16-pin connector adapter cable, which are shipped with the MSI GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs. Similar to the previous case, where a Redditor saw a melted connector on the MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio , this user also had the same GPU and connected it to his PSU using the MSI adapter.

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The pic he posted clearly shows a burnt top row on the MSI yellow-tipped connector, and the t

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