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[Papusan]

 

Let'm burn. One by one. What brands doesn't matter. Will never come a proper fix before most of them melt to crispy crunch...

 

 

A Zotac RTX 5090 Solid completely burns out its connector!

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mr. Fox]

6 minutes ago, Papusan said:

 

Let'm burn. One by one. What brands doesn't matter.

 

A Zotac RTX 5090 Solid completely burns out its connector!

 

 

 

 

 

 

This may not mean much, but it seems like all of the melted connections I have seen have been on air-cooled 4090 and 5090 GPUs. I wonder if that is somehow contributing to the melting plastics. I may be mostly due to liquid cooling being less common. My liquid cooled cards have a thermal pad to help wick away heat from the connector to the backplate, and it definitely works. The backplate is always warmer around the  connector.

 

It also looks as if both of those examples above are using the octopus adapters that ship with the GPUs and not aftermarket cables/adapters.

[Papusan]

35 minutes ago, Mr. Fox said:

This may not mean much, but it seems like all of the melted connections I have seen have been on air-cooled 4090 and 5090 GPUs. I wonder if that is somehow contributing to the melting plastics. I may be mostly due to liquid cooling being less common. My liquid cooled cards have a thermal pad to help wick away heat from the connector to the backplate, and it definitely works. The backplate is always warmer around the  connector.

 

It also looks as if both of those examples above are using the octopus adapters that ship with the GPUs and not aftermarket cables/adapters.

 

8 out of 10 cards sold in the market is probably air cooled cards. And the average gamer Joe #if buying xx90's" prefer air cooled cards. 

 

And not sure even with help some won't connect the tiny trash correctly to the card. Even pros can fail the same task. And if you connect it properly that doesn't necessarily mean the current will be balanced between each of the 12V pins. And you may see if you succeded after a few months/a year. Use of clamp meter is needed if you want to be 100% sure everything is correctly connected. But I expect the average pc user will never test it this way. It's plug and play.

 

 

[electrosoft]

1 hour ago, Papusan said:

 

Let'm burn. One by one. What brands doesn't matter. Will never come a proper fix before most of them melt to crispy crunch...

 

 

A Zotac RTX 5090 Solid completely burns out its connector!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Myself personally, I am not a fan of any downward pressure/force on these cables especially the official adapter. Since Ampere, I have always run my cables up over the back suspended and supported by either another cable and/or a cable tie from the top of the case.

 

Second, the way they jut out really leaves no choice for many to put some bent stress on it depending on case depth. Even in my Phanteks Enthroo which is pretty massive with the cable connector run completely straight as possible before the suspended hold, it is protruding past the glass cover (or where it would be).

 

If you're running a down run on the cable, I would actually give it some slack and use some cable ties to remove any and all type of pressure off the cable from the bottom and give it support. That expansion and contraction of the connector along with that constant pull on it can't be good.

 

lastly, I would just sacrifice aesthetics and if that means having to run it with the panel off do it that way.

 

You can always run a right angle adapter that you trust, but even then I would still give the cable some slack and then use a zip tie or retention mechanism on the bottom of the case to remove all pull from the cable.

 

With the Wireview 2 pro warranty in place, I do plan on transitioning to a single run and potentially swapping in either my pre-existing MSI AI300p (AI = barf) or an Asrock 1600w PSU and then running the 800w vBIOS. 

 

1 hour ago, Mr. Fox said:

This may not mean much, but it seems like all of the melted connections I have seen have been on air-cooled 4090 and 5090 GPUs. I wonder if that is somehow contributing to the melting plastics. I may be mostly due to liquid cooling being less common. My liquid cooled cards have a thermal pad to help wick away heat from the connector to the backplate, and it definitely works. The backplate is always warmer around the  connector.

 

It also looks as if both of those examples above are using the octopus adapters that ship with the GPUs and not aftermarket cables/adapters.

 

1 hour ago, Papusan said:

 

8 out of 10 cards sold in the market is probably air cooled cards. And the average gamer Joe #if buying xx90's" prefer air cooled cards. 

 

It's probably a bit of three  things:

 

#1. Air cooled cards vastly outsell waterblocked cards (aka Joe Gamer) who plug n play and just go even twisting and forcing their connections if need to make them fit which is problematic in and unto itself.

 

#2. Those who block their cards are also cognizant of the connector issues and usually take a higher level of care and attention to their cards and cable(s).

 

#3. The nature of the block, coverage and cooling can provide better cooling to the connector assuming the imbalance of amps and subsequent heat is the issue and as a result the extra heat is being dissipated at a higher level than normal connections. It isn't as if the imbalanced amps are killing the connectors. It's the absolute meltdowns as a byproduct that are doing it.

 

So you have not only a much smaller audience who block but within that audience a higher degree of care and maintenance along with added cooling to the connector.