Question The HDMI plug overheats on my DisplayPort to HDMI cable ?

[Monko87]

I recently bought a dp to hdmi cable, the dp side is fine and cold (pc side) but the hdmi (display side) is overheating after 1-2 min(only the metallic part that you touch to insert it, i think it s aluminium).
I have a 3060 and i m using 2 monitors, 1st with HDMI to HDMI and 2nd with DP to HDMI. Both monitors are Samsung 60hz 1st 27" 2nd 21"
Anyway i can fix it ? i can t use 2 hdmi to hdmi cables because the rtx 3060 have only 1 hdmi port and 3 dp.
link to cable: www.amazon.it/dp/B07VKS8JQ3

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Perhaps see if the same happens with the cable+display when you hook up the cable to another display source, keeping in mind to also hook them to an available HDMI + DP connector on your donor system to see if the issue with the cable itself.
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In fact you can use the cable on another panel that you don't own, perhaps at your friend's or neighbors and using their system as the donor display output device, to see if the issue crops up again.

 

[Monko87]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Perhaps see if the same happens with the cable+display when you hook up the cable to another display source, keeping in mind to also hook them to an available HDMI + DP connector on your donor system to see if the issue with the cable itself.
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In fact you can use the cable on another panel that you don't own, perhaps at your friend's or neighbors and using their system as the donor display output device, to see if the issue crops up again.

already tested on 2 different pc and 2 different monitors and the problem is the same 🙁 so i think we can exclude the pc/gpu/monitor. Can we concentrate on the cable right?

 

[kerberos_20]

mine optical hdmi cable also heats on touch, that means there is some power draw

 

[Monko87]

mine optical hdmi cable also heats on touch, that means there is some power draw

I'm quite ignorant, what does this mean? Is it a cable or PC problem?

 

[kerberos_20]

I'm quite ignorant, what does this mean? Is it a cable or PC problem?

it shouldnt be a problem, it just mean there is a circuitry which draws power, your cable is marked as displayport source and hdmi as target (one way non bi-directional), that is active adapter, so there is circuitry which does dp to hdmi signal conversion, that circuitry is heating up, because its working

 

[Monko87]

it shouldnt be a problem, it just mean there is a circuitry which draws power, your cable is marked as displayport source and hdmi as target (one way non bi-directional), that is active adapter, so there is circuitry which does dp to hdmi signal conversion, that circuitry is heating up, because its working

so this couldn't create problems for the monitor or other components of the PC? I'm asking because a friend has an adapter, the one where you use an HDMI to HDMI cable and hook it to the box that converts to DP and says it doesn't detect this heat. Can I rest assured or are there other tests I could do in this case?

 

[Monko87]

FIXED: I solved it by buying a passive dp to hdmi adapter and it no longer creates overheating problems.