The RTX 4090 burning controversy, well, its power connector, continues and what previously seemed like a minor problem for a select few, has over the days become something much bigger. Last of all? NVIDIA is contacting custom graphics card manufacturers to try to resolve the issue for their latest release. At the same time We give you a solution that can help you avoid the problem.
Being what is usually said to be an early adopter or an early buyer usually doesn’t pay well, even if you have the latest gen product, you also become something of a guinea pig. Since each product in its successive relaunches and editions ends up being refined in its successive versions. And we are not talking about a product with better specifications, but new deliveries of it. Not in vain, NVIDIA has scared us before,
NVIDIA’s solution to the RTX 4090’s burn connector
Well, it seems NVIDIA’s solution was to tell custom card makers to collect all RTX 4090s with the fused power connector and send them straight to their headquarters. Which indicates that the problem is much bigger than it seems at first glance and that it is not something trivial. Let’s not forget that the designer of the GeForce RTX publishes a series of specifications for its partners so that they can make custom models with the same GPU and video memory as the Founders Edition, but with a different PCB design.
In other words, this is a problem that could be caused by a fault in the product specification or a misunderstanding. Either way, it’s a precedent for them, because they don’t usually do these things on a regular basis. Also, some industry experts claim that the problem is not in the way the cables are bent,ino in the adapter of the RTX 4090, which would be of poor quality. At the moment we are still waiting to see the response, but everything indicates that the RTX 4090 could have a relaunch in a few weeks with the problem already fixed.
The interim solution? Limit the power consumed.
At the same time, and to avoid the RTX 4090 burnout problem, many users of NVIDIA’s new high-end graphics card have come up with the idea of limiting the maximum power it can consume. By this we are not referring to an exercise in manipulating voltage, but rather current and this can be done from within the graphics card configuration. That is to say, reduce the number of watts consumed in exchange for not causing a voltage drop or increase. The reason to do so if performance is lost? Not wanting to sacrifice a component costing more than 2000 dollars until the solution to the problem is found. In any case, you don’t lose as much performance as you think.
Limit the maximum power that the graphics card to a maximum of 80% of the totalthe average number of frames per second on average not fall by more than 5%. Recall that in our analysis of the RTX 4090 we were able to verify that the total consumption is 450 W. Let’s not forget that 80% of 450W is 360Wwhich shows that NVIDIA could perfectly have done an RTX 4090 with a dual 8-pin connector and without the 12VHPWRsomething AMD announced it would do
