News RTX 5090 yellow-tipped connector becomes a charred mess following GPU meltdown

[Admin]

An RTX 5090 user discovered their 16-pin connector unexpectedly burnt to a crisp while diagnosing display issues with their GPU.

RTX 5090 yellow-tipped connector becomes a charred mess following GPU meltdown : Read more

 

[Lamarr the Strelok]

Now we just wait for nvidia fans to blame AMD for this somehow. 'Both sides are bad' is always a classic.

 

[Notton]

What strikes me about this example is 5 of the pins on the cable side are burnt and the GPU side looks intact.
At first glance it seems like all 6 pins are burnt, but the 3rd one from the left is less crispy.

Usually it's 1 to 3 pins that are melted.
If 5/6 sets of pins are making contact and it's still melting, it's not well designed.

 

[Li Ken-un]

Please please please just write an article listing the board partners who gave the middle finger to NVIDIA’s reference board design to do it the right way.

 

[JayGau]

Now we just wait for nvidia fans to blame AMD for this somehow. 'Both sides are bad' is always a classic.

The best way to show the entire world that you are an AMD fanboy is to call out Nvidia fanboys before they even show up.

 

[thestryker]

This is the most burned looking one I've seen which makes me wonder if it was poorly connected or a manufacturing error.

While I certainly think the rollout of this spec has been a mess due to how little margin of error there is I do think it's mostly fine if the designs took that into account. I think the ideal solution would be for nvidia to mandate per pin monitoring and then bake in thresholds to the vBIOS and dynamically lower power draw if those are exceeded. 8-pin PCIe connectors are not coming back to high end cards due to PCB space, but that doesn't mean the status quo is okay.

 

[YSCCC]

What strikes me about this example is 5 of the pins on the cable side are burnt and the GPU side looks intact.
At first glance it seems like all 6 pins are burnt, but the 3rd one from the left is less crispy.

Usually it's 1 to 3 pins that are melted.
If 5/6 sets of pins are making contact and it's still melting, it's not well designed.

Actually on the GPU side, somehow funny was on the row of pins burnt on the adapter, there are yellow stains on the female socket, so it somehow left the yellow paint on it

 

[Lamarr the Strelok]

The best way to show the entire world that you are an AMD fanboy is to call out Nvidia fanboys before they even show up.

Well crud. I walked right into that.But no, I'm not a fan of any million dollar company. Until recently I didn't care about this. I've had both over the years.It's got to the point that it's just dumb.Less vram, higher prices,forcing ray tracing, how they treated EVGA,etc.My primary thing with gpu's is VRAM. If you can afford a more expensive card with less VRAM,great! I can't afford a gpu every couple of years.
It's pathetic simping for a trillion dollar corp.And I'll be honest: My guitars and amps are made by million dollar companies.To a certain extent I'd defend them. But if it was really scummy,I'd criticize them.I've been fans of their products for 40 years.
But like any hobby, there are different levels of intensity.Some guitarists use transistors(ew) instead of tubes/valves for their pre and power amps. They're monsters of course,but we all still get along in general.