News Vendors safeguard 16-pin connector on RTX 5090 with thermal pads — helps dissipate excess heat

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I hope the heat problems with the 16 pin connector don't extend all the way down the product stack. That connector should only be used on cards that actually need it. Lower wattage cards don't need it. It's wrong that they are getting it, too.
 
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Custom RTX 5090 models now include thermal pads on the backside of the 16-pin power connector.

Vendors safeguard 16-pin connector on RTX 5090 with thermal pads — helps dissipate excess heat : Read more
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ah ha we have a inferior connector that loves to melt how do we solve it reduce power ? go back to old connector?. nah lets use thermal pads as a band aid so by the time the user does get to the connector it will be possibly worst damaged. absolutely ingenious idea.
 
The nylon material used for the connectors is a pretty good thermal insulator, IIRC. I think I watched a gamers nexus video back when they were first looking into the reports of melting connectors, and they found that the outside of the connector housing stayed relatively cool even when the inside was really heating up. I'm a little skeptical that adding thermal pads to the outside will make a big difference, if heat can barely make it to the outside of the connector in the first place.
 
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We had perfectly working 8 pin atx connectors that should have been the standard forever. They released this connector because they decided their consumer cards should be drawing an amount of power that is frankly too much for a consumer device, too much heat output.
 
ron4 said:
We had perfectly working 8 pin atx connectors that should have been the standard forever. They released this connector because they decided their consumer cards should be drawing an amount of power that is frankly too much for a consumer device, too much heat output.
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Why?

8-pin power connector is not the first and not the last to start getting phased out. It's clearly deficient given many GPUs need already at least 2 to function.

I'd much rather have one cable to deal with instead of 2/3/4/...

That said, they definitely should have made a better job with it - it should have been rated 1000w, and that plug nonsense should not have been a thing.
 
ron4 said:
We had perfectly working 8 pin atx connectors that should have been the standard forever. They released this connector because they decided their consumer cards should be drawing an amount of power that is frankly too much for a consumer device, too much heat output.
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actually it's not the connector itself is bad.. it's that it is rated so much closer to what the gauge of wires could handle compared to the old standard being the problem, the less headroom, the easier it is to get toasted. it doesn't help when the said connector is sat so close to normal case side panel when the debut cards are gigantic.
 
Gaidax said:
Why?

8-pin power connector is not the first and not the last to start getting phased out. It's clearly deficient given many GPUs need already at least 2 to function.

I'd much rather have one cable to deal with instead of 2/3/4/...

That said, they definitely should have made a better job with it - it should have been rated 1000w, and that plug nonsense should not have been a thing.
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You may save a couple cables, but lot of these cards have the new connector right in the center of the card where the cable has to reach over everything awkwardly instead of at the corner of the card, I would rather have two in the corner than one in the center. The new cables are also harder to sleeve and they require dongles since most people don't have a new power supply.

This was a high risk low benefit change. They fixed something that wasn't broken and there's been problems with it for multiple generations now.
 
ron4 said:
You may save a couple cables, but lot of these cards have the new connector right in the center of the card where the cable has to reach over everything awkwardly instead of at the corner of the card, I would rather have two in the corner than one in the center. The new cables are also harder to sleeve and they require dongles since most people don't have a new power supply.

This was a high risk low benefit change. They fixed something that wasn't broken and there's been problems with it for multiple generations now.
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That's down to the manufacturers to solve.

If Nvidia can somehow do an angled connector on 5090, so can the 3rd party manufacturers.

The new cable is one cable, not 4 cables - I can bet 1 cable is easier to sleeve than 4.
 
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