News Official RTX 4090 power cable found melted by reviewer 2 years later — card functioned fine despite hidden melted connector

[Admin]

The gaming/tech review site Dark Side of Gaming looked at its test rig RTX 4090 and 12VHPWR cable. Despite not removing the cable from the RTX 4090 over two years of use, the connector has become melted and exposed.

Official RTX 4090 power cable found melted by reviewer 2 years later — card functioned fine despite hidden melted connector : Read more

 

[TheyStoppedit]

You would think that a $2T+ valued company would have engineers that understand basic electrical 101, but apparently not. Apparently they can't afford any extra 2 milli-ohm shunt resisters. Ever since leather jacket man told us at the keynote that the melting would stop on the 50 series.... I was just laughing... like.... ya ummmm... okay. Before the 50 series came out, I was teling everyone like.... ya... give it a week or 2. The well-known michael jackson popcorn gif is kind of in 5th gear right now..... lol. Well, at least buildzoid understands basic electrical 101, and explains clearly why this keeps happening and will continue to happen. I'm just looking at NVidia right now like.... you guys are idiots. You know what's gonna happen next??.... Stock on 5090's is going to replenish fast, because now prospective buyers will be scared off. Oh, and wouldn't you know it, its also starting to happen to 5080 users as well. Grab yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show. Class action lawsuit incoming. Enjoy !

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb5YzMoVQyw

 

[edzieba]

You would think that a $2T+ valued company

PCI-SIG? They're an industry working group, not a company.

 

[TheyStoppedit]

PCI-SIG? They're an industry working group, not a company.

They're not the idiots who chose to stop current balancing on 40 and 50 series cards. Go watch the video. You'll see

 

[King_V]

Nvidia is kicking it old-school with Molex-to-SATA levels of fire hazard.

😆 😆 😆 😆 Alright, that would've definitely had me nose-jetting if I'd read that while drinking something!

 

[ezst036]

They're not the idiots who chose to stop current balancing on 40 and 50 series cards. Go watch the video. You'll see

This video makes a ton of sense.

No wonder it keeps being that one single wire that is burning up. We keep seeing that in the photos. Nvidia is singularly the problem here - not the cable and not any one of these power supplies.(barring some super-cheapo PSU model being used.)

The fact that the 3090s had these connectors and I can't remember very many of them melting, that explains a lot.

 

[KidHorn]

I've never owned a video card that uses a 12 pin power connector, but doesn't the cable come with the power supply? Like all the other cables. If so, shouldn't the cable that comes with the PSU be able to handle any current the PSU can deliver? Seems like the PSU should fail before the cable.

 

[Eximo]

😆 😆 😆 😆 Alright, that would've definitely had me nose-jetting if I'd read that while drinking something!

See now I want to spend a little money just to make a meme image.

8 SATA to 6-pin adapters, 4 dual 6-pin to 8-pin adapters, and one Nvidia quad 8-pin to 16 pin adapter. And I suppose I'll need a non-modular PSU while I am at it with 8 SATA connectors, luckily those are common for some reason.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

PCI-SIG? They're an industry working group, not a company.

They can still get peer pressured from industry members.

http://www.jongerow.com/12VHPWR/index.html

It was nVIDIA + Dell who sponsored/pushed 12VHPWR through and when things went south, send blame to PCI-SIG + Intel.

It's standard nVIDIA tactics to blame everybody else but themselves.

A similar thing happened with Bump-Gate. That's why nVIDIA was persona-non-grata with Apple afterwards and AMD took the spot of sole GPU vendor after that during the remaining intel days

 

[King_V]

See now I want to spend a little money just to make a meme image.

8 SATA to 6-pin adapters, 4 dual 6-pin to 8-pin adapters, and one Nvidia quad 8-pin to 16 pin adapter. And I suppose I'll need a non-modular PSU while I am at it with 8 SATA connectors, luckily those are common for some reason.

I could EASILY see this image, or video, being endorsed by Mr. Torgue.

 

[DRagor]

8 SATA to 6-pin adapters, 4 dual 6-pin to 8-pin adapters, and one Nvidia quad 8-pin to 16 pin adapter.

Reading this I imagined autobot-type machine made of mass of tangled and wriggling adapters 😀

 

[TJ Hooker]

They can still get peer pressured from industry members.

http://www.jongerow.com/12VHPWR/index.html

It was nVIDIA + Dell who sponsored/pushed 12VHPWR through and when things went south, send blame to PCI-SIG + Intel.

It's standard nVIDIA tactics to blame everybody else but themselves.

A similar thing happened with Bump-Gate. That's why nVIDIA was persona-non-grata with Apple afterwards and AMD took the spot of sole GPU vendor after that during the remaining intel days

The ECN that Gerow is referencing at the beginning of your linked page (12vhpwr sideband allocation and requirements) is purely for defining the sideband signals (sense pins), not the power pins or the overall 12VHPWR connector. And all ECNs have a sponsor, so the fact that Nvidia and Dell are listed as sponsors isn't particularly notable on its own.

Now, I could certainly believe Nvidia exerted some pressure to get 12VHPWR approved, given that they had already released a generation of cards using essentially that connector before it became part of the PCIe spec. To what extent they can unilaterally steer PCI SIG, I have no idea. But either way, your link doesn't really say anything of the sort.

 

[valthuer]

It clearly is a user error.

I've been a 4090 owner for two years (just sold it 2 days ago) and haven't encountered any issues at all.

Perhaps i was just lucky enough to choose an Inno3D version of the card.