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You buy a €2,000 graphics card and it burns, what’s wrong with NVIDIA?

The new power cable for top-of-the-range graphics cards, the 12+4-pin one, also known as 12VHPWR, is only supported by NVIDIA, who has already launched two graphics cards with said connector on the market. We are referring to the RTX 3090 Ti and the RTX 4090. While AMD has confirmed that it will not use said connection and Intel with its ARC Alchemist has not done so either. The reason for it? It seems that this cable is not intended for long gaming sessions.

Why do the RTX 4090 burn?

well really it is not the NVIDIA card that is fried, but the 12+4 pin cable that it uses to power itself, which has the problem that depending on how we have it placed, it can overheat and create a fire inside the case of our PC. The reason? Well, apparently the cable has to be bent in a specific way, as you can see in the following image.

RTX 4090 RTX 3090 Ti power cable correct placement

that is, noor we can bend the cable neither vertically nor horizontally, but calculate 35mm from the end and do it. This is something that was unknown and many users who have purchased an RTX 4090 have encountered serious problems. Since a third of my say that said cable has meltednot being able to use their RTX 4090, which has cost them more than 2,000 euros.

Worst of all about the RTX 4090 being burned by the cable is that this problem is aggravated with high gaming sessions. NVIDIA has long seemed embarrassed to say that its main market is graphics cards for video games and they have AI on their lips all the time. And it is that many users are going to spend several hours playing with their new top graphics card and someone who has paid such an amount of money is going to want a product that works well from the first to the last minute.

A quality issue that should have been resolved

Quality departments are important in every company, more than anything because they are responsible for ensuring that products leave the factory in optimal conditions. For example, if you have a biscuit factory, you are going to look for all of them to have the flavor that characterizes you, but that no boxes come out, nor poached boxes. NVIDIA shouldn’t let this issue show up in their productmore than anything because of two very basic facts: the first one is that it gives a very bad image, the second is because it makes reluctance towards the new connector decrease.

The reason why these high consumptions are sought today is to take the graphics cards to the highest in terms of voltage and clock speed in order to get the maximum possible power out of them. Although also to be able to implement video memories with high bandwidth and energy consumption such as GDDR6X. There’s no question that the RTX 4090 is a card and the most powerful thing we’ve seen in years, but there’s also no question that NVIDIA could have avoided this problem with a little more tact.

Officially, they have already confirmed that they will study the problem, which is something, but such oversights cannot occur in a product of more than 2000 euros.

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