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The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is the company’s latest graphics card. Since its release, it has been reported that the graphics card was overheating the connection, melting the connection port and cable. A recent post on Reddit now shows that an ATX 3.0 power supply that uses a 12VHPWR power connector now has the same melting issues.
There have been several confirmed cases online where a 16-pin power adapter has become a fire hazard. NVIDIA is reviewing the reports and asking partners to send the defective cards back to the company. This will allow the company to view not only the main graphics card, but also the custom cards made by its partners to find out the cause of the problem and fix the problem as quickly as possible.
The latest post on Facebook shows a user using an MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming X Trio 24G GPU with a MEG AI1300P power supply (also manufactured by MSI). Although the user was aware of the known issues with the NVIDIA RTX 4090 series, they used an ATX 3.0 power supply with a custom 12VHPWR connector to completely avoid the 16-pin adapter, but despite using the cable’s 16-pin connector , ended up melting.
You can see in the pictures that not only does the connector port look like some connections are starting to melt, but the cable wears out immediately. The user did not bend the cable, a known problem from the first times. MSI contacted the user to replace the GPU and power supply. It is not known if the use of a third party or partner component is the source of the overheating problem or if the problem is related to the design of the board, cable, etc.
Although the true source of the problem is unknown, the number of cases continues to grow without a complete solution of the problem. This will worry users further, as the biggest deterrent for new users buying a card for the first time, or for repeat customers looking to upgrade to the latest generation, is having to pay nearly $ 1,600 for the latest. NVIDIA graphics card.
