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Nvidia the new APPLE.

The 4090 connector issue isn't Nvidia, Intel came up with the spec in the first place, Intel then revised it, and the moment they did, Nvidia started putting the new connector revision on all cards.

The 4x PCIE to 1x 12VHPWR adapter on the other hand..... Straight in the bin from me, use PSU maker's direct 2x PCIE to 12VHPWR cable only.
 
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mrk said:
The 4090 connector issue isn't Nvidia, Intel came up with the spec in teh first place, Intel then revised it, and the moment they did, Nvidia started putting the new connector revision on all cards.
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Intel is now the enemy !!! :D

It's a shame Nvidia, And the vendors, Don't offer a service of sending in your current card, For a fee of course, And they will replace the older connector with the newer safer one.
 
They will all just say "if it's used as instructed, it will be fine, so no free replacements" - Well if it's fine, then why is there a revision in the first place and why are all new models using the revised connector.... Hmmm.
 
mrk said:
The 4090 connector issue isn't Nvidia, Intel came up with the spec in the first place, Intel then revised it, and the moment they did, Nvidia started putting the new connector revision on all cards.

The 4x PCIE to 1x 12VHPWR adapter on the other hand..... Straight in the bin from me, use PSU maker's direct 2x PCIE to 12VHPWR cable only.
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According to the other thread (the Cablemod melted thread), doing that voids your warranty.

GPU vendors love to void warranty. The big question on that thread was: what if you have a new Asus PSU with the new connector and are using an Asus 4090? Probably voids the warranty but would be a hard one for Asus to explain (knowing their great reputation, they'd probably just kick the card around the place a bit and then claim it was damaged by the user...)
 
Your warranty is only void (depending on AIB ofc) if the cable melts, have there been any documented cases of PSU maker cables melting?

Look at it the other way, if the connector using the NV cable melts, or cablemod, then it can also melt on the PSU end too as has been documented in a few cases, will the PSU maker then void the PSU warranty because a cable that they didn't recommend was used?

I'd much rather use the PSU maker's own 600W cable which has yet to have repeated and documented melting issues, vs the GPU bundled adapter, or cablemod, which seems to have a new melted incident every week or so.

My thinking is, there's no reason to have to make use of warranty RMA if there's nothing that fails this way...
 
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Not excusing them here, I agree that it was short sighted by Nvidia sticking to 1.4 but...

A 4090 can't run 7680x2160 @ 240Hz
A 7900XTX can't run any note worthy game at 7680x2160 @ 240fps

Seems none of the high end cards can do your monitor justice regardless of display port version but I'm pretty sure the 4090 will run the majority of recent games at higher fps than a 7900XTX would at that res, even though it's stuck at DP1.4
 
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