News Inno3D Hides Power Port On New RTX 4070, RTX 4060 Ti GPUs

[Admin]

MyDrivers reports that Inno3D has developed a unique design to hide the power connectors on its upcoming GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards.

Inno3D Hides Power Port On New RTX 4070, RTX 4060 Ti GPUs : Read more

 

[BillyBuerger]

Nice to see some good ideas like this for better cable management and cable clearance. Not that this is perfect. Specifically the one with the covered back plate as it seems to leave little room between the bottom of the GPU and the motherboard for the cable to fit. The picture they show of it mounted looks like the cable is smooshed in there pretty tight. The bottom of the GPU should have a channel of sorts that the cable could follow along and come out the back of the GPU or the bottom after clearing the motherboard where you would expect the case to have some openings for cables to reach the back and stay out of sight.

 

[edzieba]

I wonder if Inno3D see the irony in selling a 'solution' to the problem of incorrectly seated power connectors... by showcasing them with the power connectors not even close to seated.

 

[ManDaddio]

Wouldn't it get hot being where it is?
And where are all the cases of power connectors failing? What percentage of 500,000 4090s actually were a problem? .5% in manufacturing is usually a given. I think AMD and Nvidia have each fallen way below that in the past years with faults. That's pretty great.

And we still don't know what caused the melts. I still think it's user caused whether from overclocking or not plugging a cable or cables in correctly.
I have a 4090 and have felt my cables under load several times and no heat at all felt in the cables or connectors.

 

[SyCoREAPER]

I don't know how I feel about that.

First, the 12VHPWR is laying on the fin stack, not sure how the heat will affect it long-term.

Second and more importantly, you can't see if the cable is seated correctly. You can plug it in and you put the card in, the cable can become unseated. That one tiny latch isn't a good securing mechanism. I've had it come lose two different 4090's with two different PSU while jiggling surrounding cables.

Personally I'd rather just use a 180 adapter.

 

[Friesiansam]

First, the 12VHPWR is laying on the fin stack, not sure how the heat will affect it long-term.

You didn't read the article properly, it has a single 8 pin connector.

 

[digitalgriffin]

These do the same thing and make your setup so much cleaner.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BVHWJ3ZC?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

Just pay careful attention to see if your connectors are reversed or normal.

 

[digitalgriffin]

I don't know how I feel about that.

First, the 12VHPWR is laying on the fin stack, not sure how the heat will affect it long-term.

Second and more importantly, you can't see if the cable is seated correctly. You can plug it in and you put the card in, the cable can become unseated. That one tiny latch isn't a good securing mechanism. I've had it come lose two different 4090's with two different PSU while jiggling surrounding cables.

Personally I'd rather just use a 180 adapter.

First off most fin stacks are cool to the touch compared to a backplate or GPU die. Finstacks barely get luke warm.

Second it's bad connections that are ruining the 12VHPWR. A non bending straight connection would actually put less stress on them. And these are standard pcie, not 12VHPWR.

 

[TheOtherOne]

And where are all the cases of power connectors failing? What percentage of 500,000 4090s actually were a problem? .5% in manufacturing is usually a given. I think AMD and Nvidia have each fallen way below that in the past years with faults. That's pretty great.

The HUGE and somewhat unfortunate difference is, we now live in the age of 24hrs connected Broadband Internet and Social Media. In the past even if they had failure rate of 5%, it wouldn't affect them too much since things would get replaced with warranty (as it's STILL the case) and only "reports" of any failures would be printed in those weekly/monthly magazines that hardly 5% of consumer base bought or read to begin with.

Now a days even just 0.5% failure (again, with the replacement option via warranty) gets bashed to no end on Social Media and manufacturer is suddenly labeled as worst than the devil himself!

 

[bit_user]

An underappreciated aspect of this (and quite possibly their primary reason for doing it!) is that it enables you to orient these cards vertically, in a 3U rackmount chassis. This is why Nvidia workstation cards usually have their power connector on the end.

Maybe Nvidia prevents gaming cards from mounting the power connector on the end, but it seems Inno3D found a loophole. Nice!

 

[Viking2121]

I like that, better idea than that card that get its power threw the motherboard, that will only ever work on that board.