The first case of an NVIDIA 16-pin connector, powering the GeForce RTX 4090, burning up and melting the plug has been reported over at Reddit.

NVIDIA 16-Pin Connector Burns Up! Melts The Energy Connector On GeForce RTX 4090 Graphics Card

Replace: One other graphics card, this time the ASUS GeForce RTX 4090 TUF Gaming OC, has been affected by the identical situation. As tweeted by @Vectral555, we are able to see that the 16-Pin connector and the facility plug on the PCB, each have burned up. In the meantime, NVIDIA has reached out to the OP & we’ll preserve you up to date on how issues work out.

Uh oh…

One other 4090 (ASUS 4090 TUF OC) with a broken 12VHPWR energy connector simply received posted in the identical reddit thread as the unique Gigabyte card submit from at this time.

That is barely getting out of hand…@Buildzoid1 @Sebasti66855537 pic.twitter.com/oQnaywqBzq

— Vectral (@Vectral555) October 24, 2022

Redditor, u/reggie_gakil, posted on the NVIDIA subreddit an image of the NVIDIA 16-pin connector all burned up. The connector was powering his brand-new GeForce RTX 4090 (customized mannequin). The photos present that each the facility adapter which features a 16-pin to 4 x 8-pin plug and the facility connector on the PCB ended up in flames and melted. The graphics card was the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming OC.

Trying carefully on the photos, it looks like the difficulty occurred round the primary 12-pins underneath the 4 extra pins on the highest. However trying on the adapter, nearly the whole thing of it has burned up and melted. The cable is equipped and confirms the official NVIDIA specs and we already acknowledged that bending or placing an excessive amount of stress on the cable can result in irregular temps that may find yourself inflicting points equivalent to these.

The person stories that he was taking part in Crimson Useless Redemption 2 on his NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 PC when the cardboard went up in flames and burned the facility connector. He additionally states that it could possibly be a defective cable and can RMA it although we can’t have the ability to unravel this situation till we get extra data.

PCI-SIG Inside Investigation of The Situation (Picture Credit: GamersNexus):

It was not too long ago noticed that the NVIDIA 16-pin adapter cable for the GeForce RTX 4090 graphics playing cards is simply too thick and never simple to handle in smaller PC circumstances because it hits the facet panel actually typically. So customers should bend the cable loads to shut the panel however as soon as once more, this bending is just not advisable because it may warmth up the cables and trigger the adapter to burst up in flames.

Extra on that right here. Customized cable producers and modding firms are attempting to beat this situation by providing 90-degree angled connectors which ought to go up on sale in just a few weeks.

Nvidia apparrently wasn’t pleased with their excessive finish playing cards struggling VRM failures so now they expanded their shitty design practices to the facility connector. pic.twitter.com/54sAwRIwFf

— Buildzoid (@Buildzoid1) October 24, 2022

However this is only one report and the difficulty does not appear to be too widespread in any other case we might have been listening to a number of stories. However customers solely had two weeks at max with the playing cards & most individuals are nonetheless ready to get their shipments. So if the adapter or the plug on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics playing cards is basically defective, we’ll know for positive within the coming months.

Cablemod 12VHPWR 16-Pin Cable Information (Picture Credit: Sebastian Castellanos):

Information Supply: Buildzoid