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Check Your 4090's 12vhpwr Connectors To Make Sure They are in Pristine Condition

pacegod said:
In the end, as many people have said, the connectors should not be melting.
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so many?it's a tiny minority or people not plugging them in or coming with the pins connectors not right

Been using mine for exactly a month now gaming many hours every day and still no smell of plastic and 0 worries
 
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Kaapstad said:
The connector should just work

The onus should not be on the end user to fulfill a number of actions.

The bottom line should be -

If the connector is plugged in it works.

If it is not properly plugged in it does not work.

Under neither of the above conditions should it start melting.
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This.

I don't recall any other GPU launch that came with a megathread for melting power connectors.
 
So far so good, would have had my Zotac 4090 with the 4x pin 2 weeks this Monday. System hasn’t been switched off in the time and so far everything is fine, roughly 30hrs or so gaming and no signs of issues yet.

I do have one of those cheap laser thermometers and even after gaming for a while the temp never seems to pass 50c on the connector.
 
Shaz12 said:
People should take the card out of the case, plug in the connector as tightly as possible and give it a lookover if there is any gap and while installing to not touch the cable. This only applied to the Nvidia adaptor.

EDIT: He didn't mention whether he heard a click when connecting the cable to the GPU. If there is no click, its not connected. Period.
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Wrong. He did say he heard it click in
 
arknor said:
Doesn't look plugged in fully.

how come it says he wa splaying cyberpunk on reddit

was he at 600watts or something running a benchmark really
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Talk about willful ignorance. The images provided clearly show it is completely inserted into the connector. The user also says he heard it click
 
Gerard said:
Yup, post after post after post after post after post....The notion that a batch of substandard connectors made their way into some gpu boxes is to much to handle....apparently.
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I doubt its a batch of connectors. More likely incorrect load balancing across the power pins resulting in some drawing way more than theyre designed too. But the lengths people will go to to defend nvidia from any culpability and essentially victim blame users for faulty products speak volumes about the cult like grip nvidia has over the minds of some people. Truly something to behold
 
DDH said:
I doubt its a batch of connectors. More likely incorrect load balancing across the power pins resulting in some drawing way more than theyre designed too. But the lengths people will go to to defend nvidia from any culpability and essentially victim blame users for faulty products speak volumes about the cult like grip nvidia has over the minds of some people. Truly something to behold
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And people used to claim apple had a reality distortion field. :eek:
 
DDH said:
Talk about willful ignorance. The images provided clearly show it is completely inserted into the connector. The user also says he heard it click
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Yeah I'm not sure how you can look at that image and somehow deduce it's not plugged in correctly. Ridiculous
 
Gerard said:
And people used to claim apple had a reality distortion field. :eek:
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nvidia is just next level when it comes to this. Theyre like the telflon don of chip makers, nothing sticks and everything slides off. Even fake 500mb of 970 ram hurt then in no way at all
 
JonRGV250 said:
Finally got the chance to fit my CableMod.
I've shown the sprawling mess that is the Hydra from Nvidia VS the CM..

5vmnner.jpg

Nvidia junk begone
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I would be wary of the horizontal bend. Cablemod have explicitly stated horizontal bends are substantially more dangerous than vertical. Wait for the right angle adaptor to release
 
andybird123 said:
multiple connectors is a cludge, its not good engineering, [..]
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Neither is an adapter which has 4 connectors into 1 and in which the end with 1 connector has a failure rate vastly higher than any other connector (including the 4 at the other end) and which fails in an unsafe way.

Blaming user error doesn't cut it for two reasons:

1) The users being blamed are inserting numerous other connectors properly. Including the 4 at the other end of the adapter. So they're not incompetent at inserting an adequately designed and manufactured connector into an adequately designed and manufactured socket.
2) A component failing in an unsafe manner because it has no failsafe built into it is not user error.

The full pci-sig spec might be up to par, but this isn't it. The full spec is a 16-pin spec that requires support on both the PSU and GPU. Not a 32-pin to 12-pin adaptor mess without the signalling.
 
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