:che-laugh:
dropping 2k on a fking gpu only to have the power cable literally melt
dropping 2k on a fking gpu only to have
the power cableyour house literally melt:this-is-fine:
i'm not a tech person but this "cable bend" shit sounds like trying to offload blame for a poorly designed connecter to consumers, like, idk but I really don't think bending a cable should result in catastrophic failure in the connecter and if it does then it's poorly fucking made
Its because they are puting insane amounts of electricity in a tiny cable.
That being said i once had a psu cable melt under normal loads because it was a bit loose
yeah so that all sounds like a design flaw and "i'm sorry sir but you bent the cable too close :~( " seems like the manufacturer trying to shift blame
Shades of "It's the customer's fault our coffee was hot enough to melt lead".
There are some tech youtuber/bloggers that have disassembled NVIDIA's included cable and it seems that they have some serious QC issues. So far there don't seem to be any reports from third party cables having the same issue, but it might be too early to tell. Either way this is probably a good example of "if it ain't broke don't fix it".
It's a great time to buy a used GPU, by the way, thanks to the Ethereum merge and all of the people buying overpriced firestarters. A 3090 is about half of what it cost at release and probably performs quite comparably to this without the fire hazard. If you need that much power/VRAM, that is.
probably performs quite comparably
The 4090 is something like 60% faster than the 3090. On the other hand, that's still more than enough to run pretty much any game that isn't 4k res or ray tracing atm.
The cable melts because the big unifying plate all the 12v pins from the four connectors you gotta plug into it is made out of “foil metal” which is just industry for really thin metal and when it breaks (yes due to bending) the safety sensor pins don’t do shit because they’re detecting a connection to each gpu pigtails ground, not 12v.
So youhe got a weak connection to high current lines and the sense pins intended to make sure they’re are enough lines plugged in to draw 50a (!) can’t protect you from that situation.
