Seasonic recommends the use of a hairdryer to pre-bend RTX 4090 energy cables

Power deliver producer Seasonic has a surprising recommendation for the ones concerned approximately problems with Nvidia's graphics playing cards the use of 12VHPWR or 12V-2x6 electricity cables: use a hairdryer to gently bend the cable earlier than putting in it for your case.

The burning and melting problems found inside the RTX 40-collection images cards, on the whole the RTX 4090, are well documented. It's recommended that their power cables rent 35mm of space at the point of connection before they bend, thereby ensuring a stable healthy, however that isn't always clean in those times wherein a card is close to a case's facet panel.

Seasonic has supplied several hints for consumers of its electricity supplies when connecting them to Lovelace pics playing cards. On the organization's support page, it suggests bending the 12VHPWR or newer 12V-2x6 electricity cable the usage of a mild heat source along with a hairdryer. It additionally shows doing this outdoor of the case prior to putting in the cable, which have to be performed very cautiously.

Many RTX 4090 proprietors offered one in every of CableMod's 12VHPWR angled adapters to cope with the negative connection troubles. Unfortunately for the ones clients, the employer recently introduced a voluntary remember of its CableMod 12VHPWR ninety-diploma and one hundred eighty-diploma angled adapters (V1.0 and V1.1) because of a chance of the male connector coming unfastened and overheating/melting the GPU.

The wide variety of RTX 4090 cards suffering from the 12VHPWR connector is said to be enormous. Repair store NorthridgeFix says it receives loads of the flagship playing cards, that have an MSRP of $1,599, each unmarried month due to harm caused by the connector issue. Nvidia to begin with claimed the hassle turned into minor and there had most effective been around 50 instances international. It additionally tried to place the blame on customers, claiming they have been failing to plug the cables in successfully. If only that they had used a hairdryer first.

Earlier this 12 months, MSI offered a pretty simple yet effective answer to the melting GPU hassle by adding brightly colored connection guidelines. If users can not see any shade as soon as a cable is inserted, it method the connection is solid. Gigabyte, in the meantime, "reduce out" a bit of the RTX 4090 (above) to hide the 16-pin connection and exchange the path it faces, permitting lots of area for cables.