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Involving a 3rd party cable would make a warranty claim tricky, they'd use it to refuse a claim despite it being up to spec.
I've sold three GPUs on ebay, two people claimed they got an empty box, so collection only and be warned.
Congrats, i'm in the same boat and got an MSI for £979, will spend the other 1400 from my 5090 pre order on something useful! RRP was really my limit for a 5090, but the foma is caused me an issue!
100% be difficult to get a warranty claim on it, would be too easy and in their interest to put it down to the 3rd party cable.
The thing I find funny about the whole farse, is that back when Nvidia first unveiled the 12 pin connector in, what 2020? Myself and many others immediately pointed out that it was substantially weaker than a triple 8pin and that rather than design a good connector Nvidia had just fudged their wattage ratings by negating any semblance of safety, as it was in essence three ATX12V connectors combined then shrunk to 75% scale, but the fanboys just laughed at us because of course Nvidia knew best.
The goal posts moved so you need to post regularly to retain access.
The 6 lines are ultimately shorted on the board side. There is no individual line balancing or control. The imbalance can only be the result of different resistances on the lines. Variation can come from contact resistance at either end or the crimping to the pins.
I agree. They've clearly underestimated that connection on the FE with only one shunt resistor, the one FE I probably wouldn't want now.
MSI and Asus have put lots of extra shunt resistors on their cards to try and combat the issue.
Thats good to hear! Settled some nerves about it, hopefully we get some more reviews out soon of these cards before i get mine to see how many issues arise with new stock.
Should point out, only on the halo cards like the Astral and the Asus equivalent. I think regular cards don't have it, so depends on the area you're shopping in.
Pardon my stupidity but what is a "halo" card? I assume it means the highest tier? You mentioned in post #3590 that MSI added extra shunt resistors, i take it the suprim soc will have these too?
Suprim IS a high tier MSI card, but I'd search around the Internet for a definitive answer. I only know the Astral for sure has this.
Thats a real shame, should be standard for all cards, especially the ones maxing out the power cable.
The cards are tioo cheap to afford to put 6 extra shunt resistors on
I think DeBauer said it in his video tosay, techniacally all cables are third party excpt for the ones that came with the graphics card, meaning any cablke that came with your PSU = third party
At £3000 & £3200 I hope they work..
