News SeaSonic officially recommends using a hair dryer to bend your RTX 4090 power cables before installing

[Admin]

Seasonic, a reputable PSU manufacturer, is now recommending that users pre-bend their 12VHPWR or 12V-2x6 cables with a gentle heat source (like a hair dryer) before installing them in a case with high-end RTX 40 Series GPUs.

SeaSonic officially recommends using a hair dryer to bend your RTX 4090 power cables before installing : Read more

 

[PEnns]

Considering how expensive the 4090 line is......one should expect a free hair dryer in the box....

 

[YouFilthyHippo]

This is just getting beyond ridiculous already. For the love of god, would the designers of the 16-pin connector just please come out and just admit it was a dumb decision and it doesn't work. Can we please stop this madness. This has gone on long enough and is getting more and more ridiculous. Please just do the recall already. Please stop the silliness. Please stop. It's okay to admit you made a mistake. Oh wait, that costs money. Nevermind

 

[coromonadalix]

same toughts, absolutely riculous .... it's everything and nothing, not being able to correctly change this @@$@ design

 

[RichardtST]

Or, you know, just don't buy anything afflicted with this obviously defective connector and make NVIDIA eat their mistake. It's not like they aren't laughing at you. They are. I can hear them from here.

 

[phillcom3]

It makes perfect sense though. There is a defined standard for most cables for minimum bend radii typically. It stands to reason they want to make sure there is some slack plus correct bend radi to stop cracking in the cable copper and reduce the strain in the connector. If course they could just make a more substantial connector but that's a different story.

 

[jeremyj_83]

This is just getting beyond ridiculous already. For the love of god, would the designers of the 16-pin connector just please come out and just admit it was a dumb decision and it doesn't work. Can we please stop this madness. This has gone on long enough and is getting more and more ridiculous. Please just do the recall already. Please stop the silliness. Please stop. It's okay to admit you made a mistake. Oh wait, that costs money. Nevermind

They basically have. They have changed the plug design already. https://hwbusters.com/news/no-more-12vhpwr-connector-say-hi-to-12v-2x6/

 

[YouFilthyHippo]

They basically have. They have changed the plug design already. https://hwbusters.com/news/no-more-12vhpwr-connector-say-hi-to-12v-2x6/

No. What they need to do is recall all 4090's. A proper full-out recall is in order: Manufacturers provide shipping labels to all 4090 owners. All users ship their 4090s back to manufacturers, who in turn replace all connectors with the 8-pin ones we are all used to, then ship back, at no cost to the user. That's what needs to happen

 

[Rabohinf]

A heat gun is a necessary part of a set of tools for any male.

 

[spicy_cat]

This is just getting beyond ridiculous already. For the love of god, would the designers of the 16-pin connector just please come out and just admit it was a dumb decision and it doesn't work. Can we please stop this madness. This has gone on long enough and is getting more and more ridiculous. Please just do the recall already. Please stop the silliness. Please stop. It's okay to admit you made a mistake. Oh wait, that costs money. Nevermind

At this point I'm starting to suspect that Nvidia did this on your purpose so their consumer cards don't meet fire safety standards and businesses have to buy expensive pro cards

 

[spicy_cat]

No. What they need to do is recall all 4090's. A proper full-out recall is in order: Manufacturers provide shipping labels to all 4090 owners. All users ship their 4090s back to manufacturers, who in turn replace all connectors with the 8-pin ones we are all used to, then ship back, at no cost to the user. That's what needs to happen

They could at least STOP RELEASING NEW CARDS WITH DEFECTIVE CONNECTORS

apparently 4080s are melting as well

 

[hotaru251]

If course they could just make a more substantial connector but that's a different story.

when did you ever hear of the old connector melting?

and i've seen those things bent hard at connector a lot of times.

 

[peachpuff]

Can seasonic tell us which cases have enough space so we can follow their directions? My fractal meshify 2 xl case with a smaller 3080 gpu only has 35mm from the connector to the window, and we need even more space for the cable radius. Every gpu should include a pair or up/down 90 degree connectors instead.

 

[Udyr]

And the "user's fault" crew is still quiet.

 

[Ogotai]

just don't buy anything afflicted with this obviously defective connector and make NVIDIA eat their mistake.

easier said then done... its been suggested to not buy any of the 40 series ( other then the 4090, as thats tne only card that performs as it should ) as they seem to be crap cards, and priced too high, but, people are still buying them....

 

[YSCCC]

This is going beyond stupid... a consumer product requiring such "step" to install... and it's still "user error" if anything happens to your $2000 card... bodering on being a scam

 

[Amdlova]

Easy put the graphics to work with furmark. Wait 30min.
Shutdown the machine, put gloves and remove the cable, bend the cable... put in graphics again... and it's done

 

[zorgan.roman]

until nvidia admits and redoes the power connector on these cards 4090 i will never buy this product. Even if the performance was the best, once you start wanting to squeeze the GPU and DDR performance, you can only worry. It is proof of how multinational corporations treat customers. It's not NVIDIA's first failure ... just look at how the NVIDIA Quadro A6000 turned out? A5000? ... their coolers for such overpriced cards. Thinking how to save money, cheat... At home, one has to rewire the power connector, have another cooler made on a CNC machine ????

 

[FoxtrotMichael-1]

They could at least STOP RELEASING NEW CARDS WITH DEFECTIVE CONNECTORS

apparently 3080s are melting as well

The 3080 has two standard 8 pin pcie connectors and not 12VHPWR or the revision. Unless you meant to say 4080, in which case, carry on.

 

[skyeshots]

Those cables are notoriously dangerous. USA and EU should ban them.

 

[bigdragon]

I agree that this is beyond ridiculous now. Every GPU using this new connector needs to be recalled and repaired, or every purchaser should be sent 90 and 180 degree adaptors free of charge -- preferably adaptors that don't melt!

I sometimes wonder if this flaw was deliberately engineered to motivate people to buy new cases with greater clearances.

 

[kb7rky]

Which only proves that Nvidia *knows* there's a problem, and they refuse to fix it...mainly because they'll have to shell out $$$ in the inevitable lawsuits that you just know some shyster is drooling about.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Looks like SeaSonic was doing a bit of marketing, since they're releasing their own braided and angled 12V-2X6 cable.

Seasonic Unveils 90-Degree Angled 12V-2x6 Power Connector Cables For Next-Gen GPUs

Seasonic will be introducing its brand new 90-degree angled 12V-2x6 power connector cables which will support the next generation of GPUs.

wccftech.com

 

[Deleted member 2962262]

35 mm of straight cable before bending should be the headline - that's going to require some careful build planning in quite a few cases.
I still expect to continue reading however 'my friend says amd drivers are bad so I'm going with an nvidia gpu'.

 

[Bamda]

Just another reason to buy a 7900 XTX over a RTX 4090. That is one expensive F@#$ up.