Yet Another Sapphire Nitro+ 9070XT Becomes Victim of Burnt 12V-2×6 Power Connector

[Peter_Brosdahl]

We can add another Radeon 9070 XT casualty to the list of graphics cards damaged by a burnt 12V-2x6 power connector.

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[GodisanAtheist]

It's just a trash connector yo.

The problem doesn't look common, but still far too prevalent for my tastes.

 

[Grimlakin]

Wow I would have never er expected a card with this lower power draw to even be capable of this sort of disruption.

 

[magoo]

The 2x6 connector is just a poor choice. The contacts are small and often not fully seated in the plastic. There are not many choices that inspire confidence if you own an older PSU. I havent had any issues yet in testing many current gen cards but thats no guarantee. I do use an ATX 3.1 in my testing platform and my personal PC, its the best you can do.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

So far so good with all the GPUs I've owned with these connectors (2x 3090 Ti's (used 4x 8-pin adapters at first for these), 4080 SUPER, 4090, and now 2x 5090's) but I also made the upgrade to ATX 3.1 back when I got a 4090. We all know there can be other contributing factors but I wanted to ensure I did my part for the best I could do.

 

[Brent_Justice]

Scrap the connector, go back to the drawing board. This design should have never passed PCI SIG.

 

[Denpepe]

Scrap the connector, go back to the drawing board. This design should have never passed PCI SIG.

This may be true, but if you google melted 8 pin connectors you will also find those so that's not the solution either then. Anything will break somehow eventually, if the amount is too high they will change it sooner rather than later the problem is getting to know the amount of defects vs amount sold.

Given current high end GPU's power draw something a lot more robust is needed, preferably soomething less prone to user error.

 

[Skillz]

Given current high end GPU's power draw something a lot more robust is needed, preferably soomething less prone to user error.

They need to just start shipping those high end GPUs with mini nuclear reactors in them. No more melting of connectors then.



...notice I didn't say no more melting cleanly. LOL