Just thought I’d share but this is the reason why I’m steering clear of NVIDIA.
Just thought I’d share but this is the reason why I’m steering clear of NVIDIA.
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how many cases of burning connectors are they? I’m sure they are a minority compared to total 5090 sales
Had a 4090 and now a 5090 and no issues. I e always used aftermarket cables from MODDIY though with the latest one being their new one rated for 675w. Or maybe I’m lucky?
In any other product there would be a recall. But you don’t get to be a trillion dollar company by doing recalls.
The red ring of death for the modern era
Careful mod might delete this post for telling the truth.
To the shock and awe of….no one.
Why doesn’t anyone understand this.
ITS BY DESIGN. NOT A MISTAKE. NOT A FAILURE THAT IS UNEXPECTED. THIS IS 100% WHY EVGA SAID F THAT AND LEFT GFX CARD PRODUCTION. CONNECTOR WORKS EXACTLY AS EXPECTED.
I’m sorry but I’m exhausted by these posts acting like anyone is surprised or didn’t know. This is what is supposed to happen. Along with no physx/32bit support for newer cards meaning you almost have to keep your old card as a physx slave if you play older games. SHRINK THE SECOND HAND MARKET.
They don’t want cards lasting long enough to be sold second hand. Just need them to last pass warranty, then break, then sell them a new one. Even if the on sale but slightly used 4090/5090 is still working, you gonna risk buying one used knowing this commonly happens??? Probably not. This, along with the price jump that used to be scalper prices being msrp is your new normal.
Welcome to gamers being the side piece to NVIDIA and not the main focus anymore. Buy a card and enjoy the built in failure point or don’t buy one, but stop acting like this isn’t getting exactly what you pay for. O and F NVIDIA AND ITS TRASH CONNECTOR IT CONTINUES TO SELL GAMERS.
Me when i remove all safety and precautions from my products and it then fails:
Don’t buy 5090, or just under clock/undervolt it. Problem solved.
Look at that cable the card had to have been a 5090 founder’s edition card also yikes.
This is the future on the 6090 series they will need 2 of them sense the 5090 has maxed out the current 600wat limit.
ATX 3.2 future is this cable for graphics cards.
Glad im an amd boi
GAMING IN 2025 LADIES AND GENTLEMAN
https://i.redd.it/b3u4mohqpxef1.gif
I’ll just have to hope for the best.
Meanwhile, at nvidia:
what was wrong with a few 8-pin PCIe power connectors? at least those were less likely to combust.
all they had to do was put 2 connectors on the card it’s so stupid
Wait, so is like the new drivers for wuchang bc how would a game do that?
i really wish there was a class action lawsuit against Nvidia because of this horrible connector. how many thousands of cards have to have this problem before someone finally stands up and says enough is enough? they know it’s a problem and refuse to fix it. if that isn’t grounds for legal action i don’t know what is.
Planned obsolescence.
From my experience with 5090 astral and 1500w corsair PSU
The cable that came with the corsair PSU ended up being not balanced but just good enough to use then later ended up having too much power draw on a single pin while the other pins had much lower
Swapped the cable out with a 90 degree corsair cable and it ended up being perfect balanced
After changing some stuff around in my pc the cable had higher power draw on pins 1-3 and lower on 4-6. I swapped the 2 PSU cables around and it ended up being the opposite where 1-3 had lower and 4-6 had higher. I changed where they were plugged in on the PSU and now it’s almost perfectly balanced again but not as good as how it was originally.
The main reason why cables are melting is because the cards don’t have anything to balance the power.
And I think the other reason why some cables are melting and some aren’t is because some people got lucky and put them into PSU ports that balance the power better while others may have gotten unlucky and put them into ports that don’t balance power. Or the cable is poor quality where the power tries to all go through the best pin and less on the worst pin
Just what I’ve seen and theorised
When will people stop defending the green team for the monopoly and blatant violation of consumer rights.
Trillion dollar company y’all!!!
9070xt ftw! No issues!
there was a 1mm Gap zoom in
I’m afraid to play any game considering I’m on a 4070 Ti Super now 😅
Just to confirm, this is a 5090 issue and my 5070 isn’t pulling enough power to be an issue? Right?
I’ll bet anything the source cited in that article is “according to a reddit thread”
I was using an A+ psu on the tier list. If I did not have an astral I never would have known how unbalanced it was.
I suspect there are hundreds of 5090 users who have no idea they are pulling over 10 amps on a pin.
yes we know.
until nvidia goes back to the 20 series design of balancing the load, this will happen.
dont buy higher than the 70 class
People are still buying these shits anyway.
This was done on purpose.
i had this happen to me on my 4090 and put in a RMA request and to my surprise they sent me the dongle as a replacement, because it still worked
Wuchang clan ain’t nothing to fuck with
when a company is in the trillions, nothing matters anymore.