It may not look that bad but my RX 7900 XT is damaged. It can't last longer than a few minutes until I lose video out regardless if im playing games, rendering models, streaming. I had the same issue happen with my RTX 3070 Ti build in February 2024. CableMod replaced those cables and now the new cables they sent me have melted again and took another Gpu with them.
As far as Gpu RMA, I have tried but AMD's warranty service page can't find my graphics card so I'm unable to go forth with that RMA. I have contacted amd but I haven't had a response yet.
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Oof! The second time I one year? Have you reached out to CableMod to see if they will do anything?
Keep in mind, a bad card also has the ability to melt the connectors as certain components can fail in a shorted position, bad card or bad/improperly seated cables are both a possibility.
Daisy chaining a single pci cable on a 300+w card can also cause that, but I’m guessing you know better than that.
If your card doesn’t work with a fresh cable, then more than likely the card is what melted the connector.
A bad psu can also kill the card, excessive voltage spikes can blow the transistors in a dead short position, inevitably leading to a melted connector.
Is there something wrong with cables that come in the box?
I’ve never seen a cable end that isn’t shiny with a few scratch lines on it, why are all of yours so gunky looking, surely it couldn’t be from just the heat is it?
Mine still look basically brand new since 2014.
The only cause of heat in the pin area is from either a poorly crimped female terminal making a bad contact, or from the terminals being dirty, causing electrical resistance/heat.
Or if the pinout was wired wrong and feeding incorrect voltage to the GPU pin, that burnout should be on the GPU itself, not the connector.
If it were the PSU you should have similar results on the PSU side itself, where that wire leads into, considering both sides should be at equal resistance and being the same tinned connectors.
Most decent PSU’s should have a single shared rail per voltage. So it should be on other 12V leads if it were internal to that as well.