Some time ago, insiders reported that NVIDIA’s management refused to announce the RTX 4090 Ti due to the fact that the video card turned out to be too voracious – the power cables could not withstand the load, the power connector melted, the power supplies were disconnected due to overload. And although there is no official confirmation of this situation, yesterday, October 23, a user under the nickname reggie_gakil posted on Reddit an image of an RTX 4090 video card with a melted power connector and an adapter cable that could not withstand the load. It was about these problems that insiders spoke.
In the images posted by reggie_gakil, you can see that both the NVIDIA 16-pin adapter connector and the power connector on the video card were damaged immediately. At the same time, the video card, of course, is new, and the proprietary adapter that comes with the kit was used. Of course, it will not be difficult to replace the power connector, since the service center will most likely even take it as a warranty case, but the situation is extremely unpleasant, especially considering the price of the RTX 4090. And, of course, there can be a lot of reasons for a melted connector – one one of the most likely is too high energy consumption.
A video card developed by an NVIDIA partner company is most likely factory overclocked, so it automatically consumes more power than an NVIDIA reference model. Accordingly, if the reference model consumes approximately 450 watts in standard load mode for 4K gaming, then a third-party model may consume 500 watts or even more. And even if the user uses an adapter, connecting one end to two ports on the power supply, then at the input to the video card the connector merges into 16 pins. When applying 500 W through one such connector, apparently, the temperatures are too high.
The problem is that this cannot be fixed by a hardware method – NVIDIA will not remake the printed circuit board in order to put two 8 pins instead of a 16-pin connector, for example. This means that although there are practically no reports of such incidents on the network now, in the future there will be much more of them, plus the owners of flagship video cards are not very pleased to sit on a powder keg and wait for their video card to start melting. Now it’s up to NVIDIA – whether it will withdraw the line or wait for more precedents.
Source: Trash Box
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