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But it removes the need to bend cables in some cases which is what was causing the issue for 99% of people
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Check Your 4090's 12vhpwr Connectors To Make Sure They are in Pristine Condition
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But it removes the need to bend cables in some cases which is what was causing the issue for 99% of people
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It's annoying that they're not selling the adapter for those who have a compatible card. I waited to order a cable and an adapter at the same time (to save on shipping) and would have already had the cable if I'd ordered
Perhaps they're worried about the heat issues with the adapter? Seems a bit suspect that they've gone from a big countdown and "won't be long!" to "sorry, not available".
Caporegime
I was just about to say r/Nvidia and r/PcGaming are deleting dead RTX 4090 posts
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Check out the latest Gamers Nexus Video on this, as it turns out, Bending the cables isn't the core reason for the melting cables. There is now evidence that there are inferior adapters being shipped. If you gently peel off the black tape and slide back the sleeves, you will either get either 150v markings or 300v markings.
The 150v ones that seem to be the cause
The 150v ones that seem to be the cause
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I really dont think this matters and people are still grasping at straws to determine the problem. Im not an electrical engineer but it seems to me that if the cables were the issue, the melting would manifest at the cables. But instead it shows up in the housing of the connector.
Also there is that one reddit guy who had a melted connector saying his cable was using 300v cables
yet people have made videos testing the connectors with extreme bending etc and it made no difference.
more than likely now people were clicking their connectors in fully and the b ending was helping to pull it out a bit more so making less contact.
although GamersNexus did a video where they tried it and the difference vs non boot and slightly higher temps seems to rule it out anyway.
Maybe it's not even the connector, it could be a certain type of PSU shooting down spikes, or people with their GPU power limit pushed over 100% and transient spikes. could be ghosts flowing down the internet for all we know now.
or just faulty actual cards
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FYI if you paste your link in when you click the "add media" button, it'll embed the tweet. Like this:
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How many "dead 4090" posts have they locked/deleted so far?
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Caporegime
Don't know but several people have been complaining about it.
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Hence my comment about needing an extra wide case earlier which a certain poster was so keen to ridicule.
Not that I'm in the market for a £2,000 400W card, but a wide case is something I have looked at as I want to try a 200mm case fan some day (the theory is sound - larger fans can spin slower and quieter for the same airflow - but there doesn't seem to be that many 200mm case fans). Even with "normal" 100W-200W GPUs, bending cables to squeeze them in is scary.
Caporegime
Yes and that's a problem...
it's already been disproved that bending the wire does anything....
btw 200mm case fans have known issues
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Caporegime
They do? i ran two 200mm case fans in a CM HAF case for years, one top one front, best silent airflow ever! Nothing since can touch that.
Bring back 200mm case fan mounts....
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I've been running 200/230mm fans in a HAF X for around 12 years. No issues.
Nvidia good, 200mm case fans bad.
A lot of packaging is; taking components made elsewhere and just using Chinas cheap labour and cheap shipping. The "made in China" wording is deceptive; many products are made in many countries by China is the last stage doing the package and shipping and whoever is last gets to put their name on it that's global rule.
I've had a look at some electronics that's solely made in China (well almost, China can't entirely manufacture many products due to technical failures, for example they struggle to make ball bearings so they'd never be able to do anything homegrown that requires active cooling) the quality was atrocious and actually where I live, insurance won't pay out if my house was to burn down because of one of these homegrown Chinese electronics were plugged in due to their low safety quality.
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