It's happening again, melting 12v high pwr connectors

ty_ger · 2025-02-09T21:10:13+0000

Again...

Engineering controls are not effective in preventing damage to the less-robust design.

StViolenceDay · 2025-02-09T21:36:51+0000

That Asus's R002 (0.002-Ohm per wire) GPU board-side balancing the resistance of power wires is quite interestig idea. For more safety similar balancing thing can be included on the PSU side.

ir_cow · 2025-02-09T21:38:20+0000

From 3rd party Cable and was used for the 4090 first. I am not surprised that it melted.

Assimilator · 2025-02-09T21:45:59+0000

Ah, so one person using a third-party cable in a space-constrained SFX build is evidence of an endemic problem. Got it!

Buildzoid used to be a reputable source, now he's become just yet another clickbait YouTuber spreading FUD.

Vya Domus · 2025-02-09T21:51:46+0000

The fact that he used a third party connector is not an excuse for this reoccurring issue.

If manufacturers seem unable to make products which work fine with these connectors time and time again then clearly it's not a problem just on their end, the design still sucks just as it did before.

pavle · 2025-02-09T21:54:33+0000

ty_ger said:
Engineering controls are not effective in preventing damage to the less-robust design....

What engineering? Every good engineer knows you can "flow" maximum 10A per pin as thick as in this "12V high power" connector.
That is maximum, where is the safe value? Divide that by at least 2 because you have to take into account the contact surface. And you are already at ~300W (safe maximum), not 600 anymore.

Space Lynx · 2025-02-09T22:05:09+0000

ir_cow said:
From 3rd party Cable and was used for the 4090 first. I am not surprised that it melted.

Why would anyone use a third party cable and not the one that comes in the box of the gpu or power supply box? Humans make no sense to me.

TheDeeGee · 2025-02-09T22:13:20+0000

Yeh, i read his comment on the NVIDIA reddit.

"I am not distant from the PC-building world and know what I'm doing."

"Third party cable"

:rolleyes:

TheinsanegamerN · 2025-02-09T22:24:29+0000

Interesting.

None of the third party 8 pin cables I've ever used have melted.

Hmmmm.....maybe the shitty connector with no safety overhead....is still shitty?

Calmmo · 2025-02-09T22:29:11+0000

easy drama farm

Ruru · 2025-02-09T22:42:02+0000

der8auer is probably laughing his ass off, he already said that those connectors SUCK years ago

thank lord my 3080 uses traditional PCIE 8pin ones.

Zach_01 · 2025-02-09T23:02:07+0000

PC hardware used to be fool proof on everything related to power at least.
Not anymore I guess

Statistically mistakes (on way or the other) are happening everywhere and you can not relay on the human factor. Its a major principal in a lot of cases.
In this case when a connector is pushed close to the edge of what a physical connection of this size can sustain like the 600W, and there is little or no room for mistakes you have to force the user to do the right thing. You can't just hope for the best.
Add monitoring to each of the pin is a sensible thing to do, just like @buildzoid is suggesting in this video, especially on a $2000+ product.
I dont think he is unreasonable here.

Its simple... The second the GPU sees a deviation above a certain level between current on the pins it will prevent the user from running anything that can damage the card.
This is the simplest way to force the user to the proper connection.

Dragam1337 · 2025-02-09T23:06:51+0000

Space Lynx said:
Why would anyone use a third party cable and not the one that comes in the box of the gpu or power supply box? Humans make no sense to me.

Because what is included in the box is a pretty bad adapter which you wanna avoid using - not a cable.

TheDeeGee · 2025-02-09T23:07:54+0000

TheinsanegamerN said:
Interesting.

None of the third party 8 pin cables I've ever used have melted.

Hmmmm.....maybe the shitty connector with no safety overhead....is still shitty?

Hello 6 days ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cablemod/comments/1ige19p

Dragam1337 · 2025-02-09T23:09:41+0000

Zach_01 said:
PC hardware used to be fool proof on everything related to power at least.
Not anymore I guess

Statistically mistakes (on way or the other) are happening everywhere and you can not relay on the human factor. Its a major principal in a lot of cases.
In this case when a connector is pushed close to the edge of what a physical connection of this size can sustain like the 600W, and there is little or no room for mistakes you have to force the user to do the right thing. You can't just hope for the best.
Add monitoring to each of the pin is a sensible thing to do, just like @buildzoid is suggesting in this video, especially on a $2000+ product.
I dont think he is unreasonable here.

Its simple... The second the GPU sees a deviation above a certain level between current on the pins it will prevent the user from running anything that can damage the card.
This is the simplest way to force the user to the proper connection.

Indeed, this would have been a none-issue with pcie cables... but nvidia in their infinite wisdom ofc had to invent a new problrm...

TheDeeGee · 2025-02-09T23:10:52+0000

Also the PSU he used appeared to have 12VHPWR on it and not 12V-2x6 which has slighty thicker pins.

Dragam1337 said:
Indeed, this would have been a none-issue with pcie cables... but nvidia in their infinite wisdom ofc had to invent a new problrm...

It was Intel's idea, NVIDIA choose to adopt it.

Dragam1337 · 2025-02-09T23:12:41+0000

TheDeeGee said:
Hello 6 days ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cablemod/comments/1ige19p

Yeah wauw, it happened to 1 guy where we don't know the circumstances... was it fully seated, was it running stock or a custom 1000w bios, etc etc...

Totally the same as the shitty 12pin connector...

TheDeeGee said:
Also the PSU he used appeared to have 12VHPWR on it and not 12V-2x6 which has slighty thicker pins.

It was Intel's idea, NVIDIA choose to adopt it.

No, nvidia chose to enforce it... at least with 3000 series they only used it on their own fe card, while aibs stuck to pcie (obviously) - but with 4000 series nvidia demanded aibs use that shitty connector aswell...

TheDeeGee · 2025-02-09T23:16:26+0000

Dragam1337 said:
Yeah wauw, it happened to 1 guy where we don't know the circumstances... was it fully seated, was it running stock or a custom 1000w bios, etc etc...

Totally the same as the shitty 12pin connector...

No, nvidia chose to enforce it... at least with 3000 series they only used it on their own fe card, while aibs stuck with pcie (obviously) - but with 4000 series nvidia demanded aibs use that shitty connector aswell...

Plenty of 8-Pins have melted throughout the years, you just never heard much about it.

But feel free to stay in denial.

Ruru · 2025-02-09T23:16:35+0000

TheDeeGee said:
Hello 6 days ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cablemod/comments/1ige19p

And here I am rocking with Cablemod 8pin cables without issues

Seriously, why Nvidia couldn't just use the traditional PCIE cables?

LabRat 891 · 2025-02-09T23:19:09+0000

Space Lynx said:
Why would anyone use a third party cable and not the one that comes in the box of the gpu or power supply box? Humans make no sense to me.

The user chose to use a directly-connecting PSU<->GPU cable, rather than the included 'hydra head' adapter.
Because, logically: Adapter(s)=more impedance/resistance.

Whether flawed-thinking or not, I can 100% see why the user chose a short +12VHPWR/2x6<-to->+12VHPWR/2x6 cable over the included 4x8-pin to +12VHPWR/2x6.
Space constraints aside, it would *seem* to be the better choice, electrically.

(PCIE) 8-pins have burned, yes.
Still, doesn't change the fact that it takes *considerably less* 'going wrong' for +12VHPWR/2x6 to catastrophically fail,
over PCIe 8-pin or EPS 8-pin.

Dragam1337 · 2025-02-09T23:20:57+0000

TheDeeGee said:
Plenty of 8-Pins have melted throughout the years, you just never heard much about it.

But feel free to stay in denial.

Well duh - pcie has been in use for MANY years, and for a ton of stuff. There is obviously going to be product failure and user error from time to time. But pcie has never at any point had a failure rate anywhere near 12pin...

LabRat 891 said:
The user chose to use a directly-connecting PSU<->GPU cable, rather than the included 'hydra head' adapter.
Because, logically: Adapter(s)=more impedance/resistance.

Whether flawed-thinking or not, I can 100% see why the user chose a short +12VHPWR/2x6<-to->+12VHPWR/2x6 cable over the included 4x8-pin to +12VHPWR/2x6.
Space constraints aside, it would *seem* to be the better choice, electrically.

(PCIE) 8-pins have burned, yes.
Still, doesn't change the fact that it takes *considerably less* 'going wrong' for +12VHPWR/2x6 to catastrophically fail,
over PCIe 8-pin or EPS 8-pin.
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Agree 100% ! Even if they did want to use a single connector, there was absolutely zero reason to go with such a small gauge, which is what is causing all the issues...

Denver · 2025-02-09T23:28:12+0000

Let me get this straight: anyone who points out Nvidia's mistake loses credibility, regardless of whether it's true? This just keeps getting better. Jensen for president!

LabRat 891 · 2025-02-09T23:31:16+0000

Denver said:
Let me get this straight: anyone who points out Nvidia's mistake loses credibility, regardless of whether it's true? This just keeps getting better. Jensen for president!

nVidia truly has ascended to "Apple-dom". :laugh:

15 years, and still not much has changed...

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kiddagoat · 2025-02-09T23:32:21+0000

Again.... another one of these.... people really like to drag the horse after it has long been dead and pummeled beyond recognition.

evernessince · 2025-02-09T23:35:44+0000

TheDeeGee said:
Also the PSU he used appeared to have 12VHPWR on it and not 12V-2x6 which has slighty thicker pins.

It was Intel's idea, NVIDIA choose to adopt it.

Nvidia and Dell were the sponsors. Intel just introduced it.

In regards to using third party cables, that should be irrelevant if the cable meets the spec. The whole point of having a spec is so that everyone can produce cables that are interoperable. If you meet spec and cables are still failing it's pretty obvious the issue is the spec.

It'd be one thing if this was a 1-off specific to the manufacturer but as we are all well aware, it's a long ongoing issue.

kiddagoat said:
Again.... another one of these.... people really like to drag the horse after it has long been dead and pummeled beyond recognition.

Until the spec is fixed or until Nvidia drops it's power draw to more sane levels, this will keep occurring as it has.

You shouldn't have to babysit your video card because the connector is the least robust thing in your rig.

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It's happening again, melting 12v high pwr connectors

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