{"id":466507,"date":"2022-10-28T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=466507"},"modified":"2022-10-28T15:00:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T13:00:25","slug":"nvidia-wants-melted-4090-gpus-returned-for-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/466507-nvidia-wants-melted-4090-gpus-returned-for-analysis.html","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia wants melted 4090 GPUs returned for analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some partner-manufactured GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards have a flaw causing the 16-pin power adapter to melt<\/a><\/strong>, and Nvidia is calling for all affected cards to be returned for analysis.<\/p>\n

According to an Igor’s Lab post<\/a><\/strong>, Nvidia sent a briefing to all card manufacturing partners on Thursday, 27 October 2022, asking for affected cards to be shipped to its headquarters for analysis.<\/p>\n

“All damaged cards need to be sent directly to HQ for failure analysis, this is first time\u2026 Even a few years ago when 2080 Ti got issue with Micron, they didn’t do this,” Igor’s Lab quoted a source close to the matter as saying.<\/p>\n

The 16-pin 12VHPWR power adapter is said to come from Astron and connects the card, and four eight-pin power feeds from an ATX 3.0 power supply.<\/p>\n

The connector supports up to 600W of power.<\/p>\n

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A Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 owner who shared pictures<\/a><\/strong> of the partially melted adapter on Reddit has since been sent a replacement card.<\/p>\n

The damaged GPU was sent to Nvidia for analysis. The cause of the problem is yet to be determined.<\/p>\n

Still, several people have speculated causes, including bending the connector at too tight an angle, a poorly seated connection, the internal wires being too close together, or bad soldering.<\/p>\n

Nvidia hasn’t released an official statement on the issues beyond saying that it is investigating reports.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Nvidia could launch a GeForce RTX 4090 laptop GPU \u2014 report<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speculated causes for the melting 16-pin power adapters include bending the connector at too tight an angle, the internal wires being too close together, and bad soldering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":464331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[81512,30004,3838,79022],"class_list":["post-466507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-geforce-rtx-4090","tag-graphics-cards","tag-nvidia","tag-rtx-40-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466597,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466507\/revisions\/466597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}