The controversy surrounding the 12VHPWR cable adapter that comes with every Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card seems to be growing by the day, and now the green team is taking matters into their own hands. The company is asking all consulting partners to return all damaged cards to Nvidia headquarters so that it can conduct its own internal failure analysis.
Reports continue to surface of RTX 4090 models being damaged by the 12VHPWR cable adapter, and Nvidia’s subreddit now has a dedicated thread about it. After announcing plans to launch an internal investigation into the melted cable issue, Team Green asked partners like Asus, Gigabyte, and other partners to ship damaged models directly to Nvidia.
That’s according to Igor’s Lab, who also wrote a fantastic explanation of why the 12VHPWR cable, or the Nvidia cable in particular, is so problematic. You can check it out here for a detailed explanation, but anyone looking to fix the problem themselves may want to get their own CableMod RTX 4090 GPU adapter.
In the meantime, anyone looking to get a better graphics card other than 12VHPWR should mark November 3 on their calendars, as that’s when AMD RDNA 3 GPUs will be introduced. Team Red has confirmed that their Radeon RX 7000 series will not use the RTX 4090 power, so we shouldn’t see these issues with the new pixel boosters.
Source : PC Gamesn
