The problem is that the back of the card (backplate) protrudes too far, and although it has a recess for the main beak of the connector, it did not take much into account the elevation of the 6+2-pin connector in the places where these two parts join to better hold together. There, the folded connector collides with the backplate and it can be a big problem to insert the connector correctly. The extent of the problem thus also depends on the extent of this elevation. E.g. TechPowerUp says this affects 20% of the cables they carry around in the lab. There is no problem with the classic 8-pin (full) connector, it is flat in the same places, without elevation.
The solution is not to use a 6+2-pin connector, but a complete 8-pin one. AMD has already responded to the problem by saying that the reference versions of the RX 7600 graphics cards will be bundled with the necessary cable (reduction) with an 8-pin connector, which should not have a problem. So it seems that the concrete solution will be a reduction from 6+2 to 8-pin, which would solve all cases, and not a cable with an 8-pin end, which would only solve users with modular sources. For the time being, the reference RX 7600s have not gone on sale and are only at the newsrooms for testing, so fortunately the problem does not concern real users.
2023-05-28 09:34:21
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