what were you doing to push the connector to possibly cause this.
borg-assimilated
Send that to JayzTwoCents and Gamers Nexus so they can add it to the already reported list of burnt connectors.
jefff_xd
You were warned. RIP anyway.
Muchogatos
How long did you have it before this? A month? A few weeks?
zaku49
4090/5090 you power limit/undervolt them no matter what.
DirectorD623
And so it begins…
RunEffective3479
Now imagine if you were holding that up with a cardboard toilet paper tube
Falafel-Wrapper
When I got my 5090 astral, i installed gpu tweak 3 and saw how wildly out of balance my current psu was. If I had any other card, it would have melted. I went through 3 psus before I found a well-balanced load.
I can only imagine how many people have non astral cards and have zero idea how unbalanced their load is. I forsee this being more and more common as time goes on.
Edit:
I see comments talking about “needing to be snug” to prevent this. ALL my unbalanced psu cables were very snug. I even reseated several times only to have the same unbalanced load.
Achillies2heel
Spicy
yisuiyikurong
entirely ruined.
theatomicflounder333
Kwispy 🔥😫
Actual-Instance-6969
Those guys are the first one trillion dollar company on the planet. I think people should celebrate with a class action lawsuit.
Gxgear
First of many.
wisdomelf
Thanks to the old gods, power limited my 4090 to 80% as soon i installed it. Works perfectly so far
Perrozoso
Let us know how the RMA process goes please.
Papuszek2137
Fuck this connector. I’m not even using a 5090. I recently moved my pc downstairs and my 5070ti started crashing, red light flashing. Turns out the connector got just slightly loose. Additionally it got rid of occasional driver crashes I attributed to a bit too high oc.
Eagle_eye_Online
I wonder why governments all over the world didn’t just start fining Nvidia and or making this connector simply illegal to sell.
There’s been fire examples enough to call this device unsafe and force Nvidia to change it by making it illegal.
Nolan_PG
The fact that this is not surprising anymore is concerning.
spectrusv
Were you running the GPU in its silent or performance mode? The silent one is -25W.
What PSU you have?
Why were you using the adapter from the gpu instead of the PSUs cable? I reckon receiving same MSI adapter with the gpu that I see in your pic but I threw it in the bin. I’ve got the 1300W prime tx psu from seasonic which got me the all cables I need.
Natural-You4322
High failure connector
Aggravating_Ring_714
Sad to see, such a good model, amazing cooling but no pin monitoring. That’s why only the astrals are viable cards imo, everything else is a blackbox unless u use external tools.
The voltage stabilizing/sensing asus psus really help too. Very stable/balanced loads for me across all pins.
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No surprises to be found here.
sorry for your loss
were you using the octopus power adapter on a $3000 5090 instead of a 12v-2×6 power cable from a good 3.1 spec compliant PSU
It’s almost like theres no load balancing that’s just crazy talk
https://i.redd.it/ohrt6vk8bycf1.gif
what were you doing to push the connector to possibly cause this.
Send that to JayzTwoCents and Gamers Nexus so they can add it to the already reported list of burnt connectors.
You were warned. RIP anyway.
How long did you have it before this? A month? A few weeks?
4090/5090 you power limit/undervolt them no matter what.
And so it begins…
Now imagine if you were holding that up with a cardboard toilet paper tube
When I got my 5090 astral, i installed gpu tweak 3 and saw how wildly out of balance my current psu was. If I had any other card, it would have melted. I went through 3 psus before I found a well-balanced load.
I can only imagine how many people have non astral cards and have zero idea how unbalanced their load is. I forsee this being more and more common as time goes on.
Edit:
I see comments talking about “needing to be snug” to prevent this. ALL my unbalanced psu cables were very snug. I even reseated several times only to have the same unbalanced load.
Spicy
entirely ruined.
Kwispy 🔥😫
Those guys are the first one trillion dollar company on the planet. I think people should celebrate with a class action lawsuit.
First of many.
Thanks to the old gods, power limited my 4090 to 80% as soon i installed it. Works perfectly so far
Let us know how the RMA process goes please.
Fuck this connector. I’m not even using a 5090. I recently moved my pc downstairs and my 5070ti started crashing, red light flashing. Turns out the connector got just slightly loose. Additionally it got rid of occasional driver crashes I attributed to a bit too high oc.
I wonder why governments all over the world didn’t just start fining Nvidia and or making this connector simply illegal to sell.
There’s been fire examples enough to call this device unsafe and force Nvidia to change it by making it illegal.
The fact that this is not surprising anymore is concerning.
Were you running the GPU in its silent or performance mode? The silent one is -25W.
What PSU you have?
Why were you using the adapter from the gpu instead of the PSUs cable? I reckon receiving same MSI adapter with the gpu that I see in your pic but I threw it in the bin. I’ve got the 1300W prime tx psu from seasonic which got me the all cables I need.
High failure connector
Sad to see, such a good model, amazing cooling but no pin monitoring. That’s why only the astrals are viable cards imo, everything else is a blackbox unless u use external tools.
The voltage stabilizing/sensing asus psus really help too. Very stable/balanced loads for me across all pins.
https://preview.redd.it/75k8jo11nzcf1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27936a7043c8f239fb2d700804c277909017378b
wow if only there was sufficient public notification and media coverage about this problem.
!remindme 10 hours