Nvidia’s RTX 4090 graphics card seems to be getting a third-party adapter which is constructed with a right-angled design – we’ll clarify extra in a second – from a serious energy provide producer, as the cardboard suffers additional studies of melting cables.

Sure, sadly there have been one other two reported instances of melted adapter cables with Nvidia’s official resolution that hooks up the RTX 4090 to an ATX 2.zero energy provide, as Tom’s {Hardware} studies (opens in new tab). Which brings the full as much as 4 incidents, with Nvidia already having mentioned it’s investigating the primary report which reached the corporate’s ears.

The purported drawback is with the 16-pin connector that wants an adapter (four x 8-pin to 16-pin) to hook up the RTX 4090 to an ATX 2.zero PSU (versus an ATX 3.zero product, fashions contemporary on the scene which may immediately use the 16-pin connector).

The issue is that it’s troublesome to suit that adapter in lots of PC instances, with it having to be bent spherical at a pointy angle – and the pins not being seated correctly consequently has been seen because the almost certainly perpetrator for these alarming cases of cables melting.

The idea is that having a right-angled energy connector – one that may extra simply match within the PC case with out having to be jammed up in opposition to the aspect panel (or near it) – will imply much less pressure on the connector, and fewer chance of it not being fitted correctly to the 4090 graphics card.

This resolution is what Seasonic is outwardly ushering in, as seen on Chinese language discussion board Bilibili, a publish which HXL flagged up on Twitter (once more through Tom’s {Hardware} (opens in new tab)). Add your individual seasoning as ever with sources like this.

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Seasonic isn’t the primary firm to have had this specific brainwave, as you might bear in mind. Cablemod has already aired its 90-degree angled adapter resolution, one which’s purported to be obtainable for pre-order come the top of October.

We don’t but know when Seasonic’s tackle the right-angled adapter for the RTX 4090 will arrive, or certainly if it should – keep in mind, that is information pulled from Bilibili, so we should always regard it with quite a lot of warning. And the Bilibili poster additional notes that it’s only a pattern product (within the feedback), so we don’t have any affirmation it will likely be realized.

There are different caveats right here, too, with these sorts of third-party adapters. Keep in mind that Nvidia doesn’t enable for the usage of something however the official adapter with the RTX 4090 – and turning to an alternate will void your guarantee. That’s a severe subject proper there, after all.

Some people are additionally arguing that it’s not the cable angle, as a lot as the elemental design of the connector itself which is the true drawback in coping with the wattage which might be gulped down by the RTX 4090. (Significantly greater than 450W with spikes in energy utilization, significantly in the event you’re overclocked customized fashions of the 4090, naturally). But when that connector isn’t as much as the job, certainly that might be one thing Nvidia’s testing would’ve uncovered – or we’d hope so, anyway.

And if the issue is one in every of seating the connector, essentially the most distinguished principle, certainly a right-angled adapter would not less than assist considerably by way of mitigating any pressure attributable to having to bend a stiff cable round?

All of that is hypothesis in the mean time, although, and we’d like Nvidia’s official phrase on what’s happening with these worrying instances of cable soften, naturally. Hopefully that’ll be forthcoming quickly sufficient, and equally we are able to hope that we gained’t get extra studies of this drawback coming in from different RTX 4090 patrons – as if that actuality involves fruition, nicely, clearly that’d be very disappointing.

In the meantime, AMD has been fast to substantiate that its next-gen RDNA Three flagship, which is on the verge of being revealed, won’t use the identical type of energy adapter because the RTX 4090.

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