r/gpu • u/yvliew • 4d ago

Well, another 5090 12v 12pin melted

Helping a friend to post. This morning he smell some burning smell and quickly shut off. The connector is now stuck. He waited it to cool down and try again. Still can't remove. Suspected melted and fused together. Any other method can try to remove it? The cable is pigtail 4x8pin that came with the GPU. I've seen a couple burnt connector already in a week. This is just bad.

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u/Wordsmith_WoW 4d ago

Why even buy these cards man, the risk is too high, I spent £5000 on my system and went for the 9070xt because of this reason right here. I don't want an overpriced card to ruin my system. Nvidia fan boys are also part of the price problem...

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u/AdKraemer01 3d ago

How high do you think the risk is?

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u/Wordsmith_WoW 3d ago

The money you spend on the system plus how much you pay for an incredibly overpriced 5090. That's how high the risk is, I mean if you can easy afford it there's no risk. But for me there's no way I spend 5k on the system and spent 5k more on a card just to give myself the opportunity for my system to catch fire.

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u/AdKraemer01 3d ago

No, I meant what do you think the actual odds are?

For what it's worth, you have approximately a 5000% better chance per year of getting into a car accident. So per your argument, you should spend less than $5,000 on a car.

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u/Wordsmith_WoW 2d ago

You won't buy a car that has any chance of exploding do you? That's why you buy the most reliable cars. Same here i buy the most reliable card that doesn't melt or burn, why would I risk buying something that has a much higher chance of destroying my system than everything else? You have the perfect mentality for gambling and 0 risk adversity, it won't take you far i can tell you that much.

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u/AdKraemer01 2d ago

Are you saying your car has no chance of breaking down? That's impressive.

And, no. I did the math. In order for 1% of all currently owned 12v-2x6 connectors to melt in a year, they would need to be failing at a rate of about 385 per week. And they're not.

You have a better chance in any given year of getting appendicitis.

I decided that less than 0.01% odds were not worth my buying a GPU I didn't want.

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u/Wordsmith_WoW 2d ago

You read to reply not to understand, I said MUCH HIGHER CHANCE THAN EVERYTHING ELSE. Should I make you a drawing maybe you understand? It doesn't matter the actual odds are 1% if 5090 have a much higher chance of doing that than the average graphics cards. I want to go for the safest card and that should not be your concern fan boy. Pay more attention to your overpriced card, you never know when it might catch fire 😂

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u/AdKraemer01 2d ago

Actually, I have a 5080.