The issue surrounding the melting/burning of the power connector of many units in the GeForce RTX 4090 is starting to smell very bad, and not because of the burnt, but because the position of the responsible company, NVIDIAIt looks delicate. Shortly after the green giant made its version on the subject public, we have recently learned that a class action lawsuit has been filed against the corporation for the aforementioned, something that was expected to come if we see that there are aspects of this matter that are limp.
According to ExtremeTech and TechSpot, a person has filed a lawsuit in a court in California, United States. One point to note is that it’s unclear how many people will join the class action lawsuit, but apparently dozens of broken GeForce RTX 4090s have already been reported for the same reason and a total of about 100,000 units of the graphics card have been sold.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a person named Lucas Genova on November 11, 2022 in the Northern District Court of California. The plaintiff alleges that NVIDIA is guilty of fraud for selling graphics with known defects (we assume that by the company itself) that cause the cables and connectors to melt. In literal words and according to his version, Genova accuses NVIDIA of selling or having sold “faulty and dangerous power cords and connectors, which have rendered consumer cards inoperable and pose a serious electrical and fire hazard to each and every purchaser”.
Faced with the misplaced position of the connector, Lucas Genova defends himself by saying that he is a person “Experienced in installing computer components such as graphics cards” and that he has used the best practices to avoid as much as possible that his RTX 4090 did not end up broken, but that he still did not succeed.
The lawsuit has been made public after Gamer Nexus published an investigation in which it distributed blame, but mainly pointed to the misplacement of the connector by users. However, and as we have already said, there are things that limp even taking into account the investigation of the well-known YouTube channel, and that is that the 12-pin connector was not released with Ada Lovelave (RTX 4000), but with Ampere (RTX 3000), and at the moment there is no record of the same or similar incidents with the previous generation of NVIDIA graphics.
It is still too early to draw any conclusions, but with this lawsuit, NVIDIA and the GeForce RTX 4090 may be subjected to further investigation to discover the true origin of the melting/burning issue.
