In the quiet hum of a testing bench, an MSI RTX 5090 became a small but telling monument to the gap between ambition and infrastructure — its power connector melting under the sustained neural demands of DLSS 5 in NBA 2K27. The incident, drawing over 610 watts without pause or fluctuation, exposes a recurring tension in technological progress: the safeguards we design are only as wise as our foresight about what comes next. As neural rendering begins its spread across gaming, the question is no longer whether today's connectors can handle tomorrow's loads, but how long we will ask them to try.