Publicity is a hell of a thing. By all the data we have, incidents of melting 12VHPWR connectors on GeForce RTX 4090s are vanishingly rare. Despite that, everyone knows exactly what Sasa Marinkovic (AMD’s Senior Director of Gaming Marketing) is implying with his tweet, which we’ll reproduce below.

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Two weeks ago, the Biden administration convened the second International Counter Ransomware Summit, warning that ransomware attacks are outpacing efforts to mitigate them. Now, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have

There’s been much ado in the DIY PC hardware space about the issue of the new ATX 3.0 and PCIe 5.0 12+4-pin peripheral power connector melting on GeForce RTX 4090 cards. There’s a class-action lawsuit, AMD’s managers are memeing on NVIDIA, and numerous outlets have rushed to publish their preliminary, unscientific findings as if they are gospel

Have you ever received a service bill and wondered what all those strange charges are? You call up the service provider and ask for a breakdown and explanation. By the time you’re off the call, you’re more confused than you were in the first place. Well, apparently, that seems to be by design if a new study revolving around internet service