I put this thing on a cheap Thermaltake 600w PSU. Somehow, it lasted through heavy, overclocked gaming and mining for almost two years.
Aftermath included one of the cables on the power supply melting, and the same GPU plug ended up melting with it.
I'm wondering how I can fix it. I don't really care since I upgraded anyway, but it would be funny if I could.
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You can remove the connector and solder on a new one if you know how to solder
You would have to solder on a new power connector. Also, don’t use those cheap Thermaltake PSUs, because they’re considered some of the worst from a widely known brand.
2 weeks ago, there was a dude saying that by default all 8pins were over engineered and could handle double the wattage. No it cannot.
i could’ve eaten that 3080
The “3080 on 600 watts” was not your problem. A loose 8-pin connector was the problem. It wasn’t the PSU giving not enough power, it was giving too much power for the bad connection to handle. A bad connection has resistance, and resistance causes heating.
I run a 320 watt GPU on 650 watts, just like a 3080.
My gigabyte RTX 3080 Aorus has three 8-pin connectors but I have an 800 w PSU. I’m still going to check my connectors every now and then
Each eight pin connector is only rated for 150 W. Lol.
I’d sell it or have it fixed for a few dollars.
You’ve just convinced me to never replace my Thermaltake smart. 2 years is better than I’d have guessed.
GPU’s with that connector should rot on shelves
That doesn’t sound like a PSU problem more like a connector or cable problem. If your PSU was underpowered it would give less current not more so the cable would survive even if the GPU didn’t work properly.