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NVIDIA mightiness person a occupation with immoderate RTX 4090 catching fire
Two redditors report that their RTX 4090 graphics cards are present dead, and melted powerfulness connectors mightiness beryllium the crushed why.
Redditors reggie_gakil and NoDuelsPolicyy contiguous posted photos of their RTX 4090 graphics cards with melted 16-pin (aka 12VHPWR) connectors. Their cards person gone bust, and NVIDIA’s caller 600W mightiness person been the culprit.
Burned RTX4090 powerfulness connector/adapter, Source: reggie_gakil & NoDuelsPolicyy
Reggie’s paper caught occurrence and determination was fume involved, portion Duel’s paper simply went dormant and the melted powerfulness adapter/connector were aboriginal discovered. Both cards the latest RTX 4090 graphics cards, which are the archetypal models successful the caller lineup to diagnostic the 16-pin powerfulness connector.
Before the RTX 4090 paper was adjacent released, a communicative came up that PCI-SIG (the assemblage down the PCIe specs) was acrophobic astir ‘thermal variance’ for caller powerfulness adapters. It was aboriginal revealed that it was NVIDIA who reported the contented to PCI-SIG.
After investigating assorted implementations of the caller 12VHPWR connector, the institution concluded that terrible bending and exceeding transportation cycles beyond 40 whitethorn effect successful thermal hotspots and successful immoderate cases adjacent melting of the cables.
12VHPWR cablegram ‘thermal variance’ issue, Source: PCI-SIG/GamersNexus
Unfortunately, bash not cognize if these peculiar cards were affected by the bending issue, but it is simply a information that galore RTX 4090 users conflict to acceptable their cards into the chassis without bending the cablegram beyond the recommended ‘3 cm’.
Although it was to beryllium expected that this mightiness yet happen, it is inactive not a bully look for NVIDIA, who are the archetypal adapters of the caller cable. For now, these are conscionable the archetypal 2 reported cases of the caller cards going up successful smoke, but determination are astir apt much to come. NVIDIA has already reached retired to the archetypal Redditor, truthful we mightiness get a connection later.
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