Final month there have been a few troubling reviews surrounding the beefy RTX 4090. The difficulty stemmed from the 12VHPWR energy adaptor for the RTX 4090 melting in sure circumstances. Since then, round 20 extra instances have been compiled in a Megathread on the Nvidia subreddit. And the newest reviews of melting energy cables come now from ATX 3.0 energy provides.
Earlier than, a share of the blame was placed on the adapter which might permit a number of 8-pin connectors to operate as a 16-pin. This adaptor was discovered to be very fragile and when bent too near the connector may trigger the problems we’ve seen. However with an ATX 3.0 energy provide, the adaptor wouldn’t be wanted. So the hope was that each one of those issues had been behind us. Nevertheless, on Friday after which Saturday, two customers reported that the 12VHPWR connectors had melted when utilizing their RTX 4090.
The ability provides in query are MSI’s 1,300W MEG and 1,000W MPG PSUs. Each are ATX 3.0 energy provides and have the 16-pin cable utilized by the RTX 4090. However they each additionally suffered from a melting connector through the RTX 4090’s use. In the meanwhile there are solely two reviews of this taking place. So it could possibly be all the way down to defective {hardware} and never essentially characterize a widespread difficulty with the ATX 3.0 energy provides. But it surely’s nonetheless early days and there could also be just a few extra reviews within the close to future.
Nvidia’s RTX 4090 runs scorching
The RTX 4090 is undoubtedly a really highly effective graphics card. However with that a lot efficiency comes, clearly, a variety of warmth. And we’re at a degree now the place the quantity of confirmed reviews of those points is a bit regarding. The hope is that Nvidia can resolve these points, or a minimum of inform customers on the right way to keep away from them. Regardless, these with an RTX 4090 needs to be looking out for any form of points with their connectors melting.