News CableMod issues safety recall of 16-pin power adapters for Nvidia GPUs due to overheating and melting — advises to disconnect them immediately

[Admin]

Due to an influx of melting complaints with its 12VHPWR adapters, CableMod announced a voluntary safety recall for all its 90-degree and 180-degree adapters both v1 and v1.1.

CableMod issues safety recall of 16-pin power adapters for Nvidia GPUs due to overheating and melting — advises to disconnect them immediately : Read more

 

[George³]

I've been waiting for a real acknowledgment of the problem and action. Not trying to smear and blame consumers.

 

[BillyBuerger]

All of this sounds like they really need to rethink the amount of power they are trying to push through these power connectors. It seems they are pushing the power per pin to it's limit so that even the smallest defect or "user error" can push it over the limit and cause damage. Scrap the whole thing and start over with something different. If you really want 600W to your GPU, you probably should have at least 16 pins of power/ground (ignoring the sense pins) feeding that thing.

 

[dimar]

Can this be replicated at multiple labs independent of each other and then verify the results?

 

[edzieba]

Why exactly is Nvidia to blame for Cablemod ignoring the PCIe design specifications and selling noncompliant adapters? That's 100% on Cablemod for manufacturing and selling an adapter that makes things actively worse - 'solving' a problem that is down to not fully inserting a connector by selling adapters that are noncompliant and even more prone to incorrect insertion.

 

[Kridian]

"We're sorry for the cable burn up issue."
"To satisfy our customer base and to those who've been sitting-on-the-fence on purchasing our top tier nVidia gpus, we're going to do a hard reset on all 4090s and re-release at half the cost!"
"Merry Christmas!" -Jensen (from the multi-verse*)

 

[thisisaname]

"We're sorry for the cable burn up issue."
"To satisfy our customer base and to those who've been sitting-on-the-fence on purchasing our top tier nVidia gpus, we're going to do a hard reset on all 4090s and re-release at half the cost!"
"Merry Christmas!" -Jensen (from the multi-verse*)

Sadly not going to happen in the universe I live in

 

[SyCoREAPER]

It was a SShow since it was announced. Waiting 2 hours past the scheduled countdown to pre-order then finding out it was a pre-order for a pre-order and didn't even have a full compatibility list or release date.

I have a third party one and haven't had any issues it's a tight AF fit and zero cable gap but I'll have to think if I want to keep it in place or remove it.

 

[purpleduggy]

nvidia should just have used 4x PCIE gpu connectors, which had to be powered from 4x seperate cables. the problem with the connector is the inferior materials and cheap design. If it was made with proper materials for the maximum price they are charging it would have been fine, but no, they chose the cheapest low temp plastic and bad connectors that have terrible ratings, often unrated entirely. the connector is supposed to melt if it is badly and cheaply constructed from the wrong materials. if they used high temp engineering plastics on the connector itself and real copper wire and not cheap aluminum with real rubber insulation none of this would have happened, but hey they saved $3.50 per cable because they are cheap.