RTX 4090 GPU Issues Get Worse: Native Power Connector Melts Too

Over the past few weeks, NVIDIA RTX 4090 owners have been complaining about a problem with the power connectors. IN

in most cases where melting has occurred,supplied NVIDIA adapters were used. One of these was opened and found to be of poor quality. Even a careless bend of the cable can cause damage. Such conclusions, of course, upset users, but in general, we were talking about adapters, so it couldn’t be called a tragedy. Now it turns out that the problem is more serious and concerns the video card itself.

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At the time of publication of the original article in Tom's Hardware, the number of people who have experienced reflow has increased to 19. At the same time, two cases turned out to be related to the native 16-pin power connector.

It is reported that one of the users of the video cardMSI GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming X Trio 24G and MEG Ai1300P power supply read scary reviews about the 16-pin adapter, and therefore opted for an ATX 3.0 power supply with a native 12VHPWR connector. Unfortunately, the photos show that the power connector also began to melt.

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NVIDIA has not yet figured out the cause of the problems.