Go read the thread - OP there is adamant that he installed it correctly and made sure it wasn’t bent, etc.
This is occurring way too consistently across the board to unilaterally blame this on user error.
Something is clearly wrong here and just because others haven’t had issues or are unable to reproduce it doesn’t automatically mean it’s user error. There’s a root cause here and eventually it will be reproduced and identified.
At its core - this is a design issue or a problem with the cables / connectors - if the user fails to properly install or connect the card - a valid design would simply cause the system / GPU to not power on or work.
Nothing with respect to the design of these cards, cables, or connections should yield a system that is melting, burning, or smoking to cause this type of damage.
the question is - will it be too late and someone seriously gets injured?
For your sake I hope its all good.
Im one of the people not drinking the koolaid just yet, cuz if it really was a "huge" problem it would be way more widespread.
Currently no one has even been able to replicate the issue consistently.
Im guessing AIBs are going to abandon the connection for V.2 RTX40s.
3x8 is a ton of power for a 4090.
Id argue you could probably get away with giving an RTX4090 2x8.
Ok. lets not be over dramatic lol, Yes we would like to know the cause. Yes, there is something going on wrong here that is causing some adapters or 1 native cable. we don't know yet. but clearly, from the experiments, everyone is trying to do, it's not about bent cables bends
Ever since the 3000 series, Nvidia video cards usually have millisecond spikes in Mhz, maybe it's something like this causing the Watts above 600w cable can handle and it might be the reason. or maybe constant overclocking?
As far as I know, none of the cards affected by this is an FE card. could it be something Nvidia sent to the AIB that is wrong?
regardless, how many cases are on that Reddit thread? 40 now? not even, let's say there are 1000 cases already. Didn't Nvidia just sell 100k units ? that is a 1% defective rate. that is actually way below the norm of any product lol.
Again it sucks, and we all would like to know what is the actual cause behind this. do not mind YouTubers seeking clicks and drama attention for money. I mean we should know this by now.
here is hope by next week we can have some clear answers.