Soldato
I wish, bet the staff get killer stock options.In relation to the thread, going off your sig, do you work for NV's power delivery dept?
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Melted CableMod 4090 90 degree adapter
- Thread starter mattp1986
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I check mine every so often, finger touch tells me it does get warm but more to do with the fact that heat is being blown over it by the bottom fan of the gpu cooler rather than the cable getting too hot. I'm using a native cable provided by my atx3.0 psu and the connection makes a very satisfying click.
Have yet to remove the cable to inspect, pretty sure its okay though.
Have yet to remove the cable to inspect, pretty sure its okay though
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Soldato
A correctly seated connector, with zero stress on the plug can still fail due to nvidia and some aib's cheaping out on the connector design by bridging pins to save on the wire.
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Time on the QA bench before shipping the whole lot. That it in they lab (possibly using open bench rigs) they found no problems at least at design time.
Good thing Sapphire aren't an Nvidia AIB as the Nitro line word then be too close to reality.
Well, with Nvidia solder defects - aka Bumbgate - users outside of North America got... Nothing.
Yeah I certainly wouldn't want to buy a used one with 3 months warranty left for example, ticking time bomb.
My 90 degree adapter was fully seated and hadn't budged at all and still melted out.
Be careful guys
Soldato
They will be snapped up by business or anyone that requires AI hardware. Doubt the price will shift much at all.
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I wouldn't touch 4090 full stop until Nvidia have fixed the connectors and that it has been verified to not to melt lol - it's a £1600 card!
Soldato
Say what you will about Americans, but they are good when it comes to that.
I had an LG Nexus 5X smartphone, and there was a problem with the chip that basically meant they were almost guaranteed to fail after a while, usually about 2 years.
In the US they filed and won a class action and people were compensated, of course that legal action didn't apply in the UK and LG didn't want to know.
Fortunately I managed to get sorted via Amazon, but shows you these companies don't care, I never bought an LG anything ever again.
Maybe you should think about that when considering if ever to buy another Nvidia product again.
Soldato
The changes they have made for the revised connector should keep it from melting. They are basically trading catastrophic failure for "Why isn't my graphics card powering up?" failure. The latter failure will be instantly recognized as a problem to the end user, and easly fixed when it occurs.
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When was this change made and does it only apply to the 4090?
Soldato
Igor's lab noticed a 4070 with shorter sense pins back in July, I'm not sure when they started shipping though.
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Same with the Note 4 and MMC chip coming loose causing it to fail, though I got 8 years or so out of mine before it started to fail so not complaining, in the US and Italy there was class action and they got compensation. In the UK tough luck.
When did you get your card?
Cool, but..er.. when?