Nvidia don't use the ASTRON female pin in their connectors for the RTX 30x0 FE line or the RTX 3090 Ti or the RTX 4090 FE, they use the NTK female pin (the ones I've seen) .... I've not managed to find a single case of these with melted connectors using the NTK female pins in the connector.
Yet, here we are with RTX 4090 cards from Nvidia partners (MSI,ASUS,Gigabyte etc) using the ASTRON female pins failing.
Same with the 3rd party cables using the ASTRON female pins.
And now a PSU using the ASTRON female pins in the 12VHPWR cable (the connector) that comes with the PSU melting the connector.
Zotac's RTX 3090 Ti AMP HOLOBLACK - the cable that came with it also uses the NTK female pins in the 12VHPWR connector (1st gen connector without the sense pins), I have one of these cards here.
There has not been any reports of these melting, No RTX 3090 Ti FE and not even the other Nvidia partner RTX 3090 Ti cards, as I assume that they are all using the same NTK female pins in the 12VHPWR connector on the cable that came with the GPU.
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