PSA: Don't Just Arm-wrestle with 16-pin 12VHPWR for Cable-Management, It Will Burn Up

[Dirt Chip]

There's people building pc's, newcomers and old timers, every day. The old 8 pin has none of this issues, and there should be millions of them in use at any time.
Versus a new product, with relatively few adopters (a drop of water in the ocean of 8 pin's) and with so many cases in so little time.
And i don't know what the total users mean, i see a lot of people that disconnected the cards, that bought 3rd party cables, others can be melted and they don't even know it... yet, we only know about the ones that post on the internet, not the ones that don't.

Clearly a design flaw it it's as the video say, not human error. You should not design things that so many can't even plug it in properly. Worst when not plug it in properly makes the product self destroy

Some, but not all, can be blamed on the design. The user also has his part in the end because it seems than very small percentage do it wrong.
What part is the user fault is yet to be seen.
to be continued...

 

[Bomby569]

Some, but not all, can be blamed on the design. The user also has his part in the end because it seems than very small percentage do it wrong.

for a PC part the catastrophic failure rate seems to high, not to low, but we agree to disagree.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Clearly it's an nvidia's issue designing a shit adapter
But got to love someone trying to fit this large monster in a lunchbox case

 

[Dirt Chip]

Hi,
Clearly it's an nvidia's issue designing a shit adapter
But got to love someone trying to fit this large monster in a lunchbox case

I hope to see Intel adaptors if any will be made.
It will be a nice compression.

for a PC part the catastrophic failure rate seems to high, not to low, but we agree to disagree.

In general, human error is responsible to many things. I just say it is still to early to decide what is the responsibility degree on the user in those cases. From the data until now, zero doesn't seems to be the answer.

 

[modmax]

but what if they left the old connectors? I don't understand what the difference would be, except that the new ones catch fire.

 

[Chomiq]

but what if they left the old connectors? I don't understand what the difference would be, except that the new ones catch fire.

Only if inserted incorrectly.