How many months does it take to ensure that a GeForce RTX 4090 isn’t affected by the dreaded connector-melting problem? One? Three? Six? Nope, not even close, according to one ASUS GeForce RTX 4090 owner, who took to the r/pcmasterrace subreddit this week to allege that his graphics card ended up melting after what they claim was an entire year of use. The poster, Byogore, offered the usual photo of a damaged connector, and while that’s pretty much all they wrote for their opener, the post has prompted some NVIDIA critics to cry about how a class-action suit should be launched against the GPU maker. Byogore says that he paid around 1,950 EUR for his graphics card.
“Frankly, I’m starting to think there needs to be a class action suit about 12VHPWR,” said one redditor. “Sure, everyone would only get like 4 dollars, but maybe we could at least get this shitty standard done away with. I don’t care if the 50 series needs four 8 pin connectors, it can’t be worse than this half baked pile of shit.”
“I have no idea how 12vhpwr got out of the testing phase,” replied another. “There is no way PCI-SIG tested those for any length of time. Screams that the designers were like ‘welp, this works on paper, lets put the spec into motion and start printing money!'”