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And yet the price of the card keeps rising… strange and annoying.
How does 20-25 a week and "about a hundred GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards with failed connectors every month." suddenly turn into "hundreds" when it hits the title? Toms hardware used to have standards above blatantly false clickbate titles but I guess that era is over.
So are these all solely melting because owners aren't fully inserting the cable? Or do these also burn up on their own?
I refuse to blame users for this nonsense. If this happened to me and I was told "You should've plugged it in right" I would be LIVID.
Nobody important was seriously blaming users for this lol. Hence Nvidia offering to replace any GPUs that break from this, even those using cablemods defect cables.
Plenty of smartasses on this very subreddit did, though. And were upvoted.
Although I agree that /r/hardware's comment section does not really fit the definition of "important".
The very popular Gamers Nexus YouTube channel was proclaiming it to be user error.
Me and two other friends have owned 4090s since launch. 0 issues for us. Takes much more force than other connectors to insert is the only thing I noticed.
Really glad I skipped this GPU generation entirely.
I got the Corsair 12VHPWR cable to go with my Corsair AX1600i for my 4090. No issues in almost a year of continuous operation.
So far!
But I did the same and I hope we're safe.
Here’s me with a day 1 4090 waiting for the day that my card will be like these ones. /s
I don’t think it’s an issue for any owner who knows how to seat the connector. It could be better designed to be more idiot-proof though.
Don't worry, it will wait until the warranty period expires first, then melt
Cablemod bots already here, take s break it's weekend
Funny that people here are blaming CableMod when the one the repairman is calling out is Gamers Nexus for falsely claiming the issue as user error.
I don't know why they just couldn't have stayed with the current connector, even if you had to use 4. They work, are safe, and are reliable.
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I love how this is pretty much the only viable upgrade option for the 3080 and it will burn your house down. 5000 series can't come soon enough.
Its bold of you to assume they wont use same connector for higj end 50 series.
Have there been any fires at all confirmed from this? Seems a bit dramatic.
Nope, he’s being dramatic.
Just curious: how did people know their 4090 cables were burning? Did they smell the burn, or did their 4090 malfunction?
My 4090 with Cablemod has been running fine for a year now. One more year of warranty to go. If anything funny happens, I'll RMA.
This is the main guy who does Cable Mods failed adapter repairs
Could someone explain to me why was this connector necessary?
Gven the size of these cards ... just add a third eight pin and call it a day? Most PSUs in the relevant range ship with six anyways...
Wasn’t there a class action lawsuit against Nvidia? What happened?
it was for 970 4*gb where 3.5gb were usable, the 0.5 not so much. ppl who bought the card in us, got 30$ from it.
20-25 per week would never reach hundreds per month. I mean ok, but come on.
Keep in mind, most of these cards are sold to crypto currency miners who run their cards hard nonstop 24/7. They tend to burn through any catd in a couple of years.
Conductive grease might help.
Obviously a very useful "It runs fine on my PC" but I just had to pull my GPU to check an SSD and am glad to see both sides of my connector are completely fine over a year later, even while technically using it "out of spec" the whole time.