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RTX 4090s continue to melt — GPU repair facility claims it works on 200 flagship Nvidia cards per month (www.tomshardware.com)
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[-] Hypx@fedia.io 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It’s the 12VHPWR connector that’s melting. The problem is that it is much smaller than the connector it replaces, while also sending much more power. Without very careful engineering of the design, something like this was inevitable.

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