They modify the connectors for NVIDIA GPUs

[Clipper]

Well, it seems like they think the connectors are the problem.
But how clever they are
They modify the "female" connectors to increase contact with the male connector.
Interestingly, the male/female connector is (was) identical on the PSU/GPU cable on both ends.
But only the connector on the GPU burns.
Link to the new connector:
https://www-profesionalreview-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.profesionalreview.com/2023/03/14/intel-atx-3-0-conectores-12vhpwr/amp/?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQGsAEggAID#amp_tf=De %251%24s&aoh=16793295565439&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.profesionalreview.com%2F2023%2F03%2F14%2Fintel-atx-3-0-conectores-12vhpwr%2F
Best regards

[defaultuser]

"... Crimp Contacts inside of the cable plug are recommended to use the 4 Spring design instead of 3 dimple design (as shown in below figure) which will increase the contact area for electrical current flow inside the 12VHWPR connector and reduce the temperature rise of each contact.Below figure image courtesy of Wieson Technologies Co., Ltd.*..."

We recommend the one on the right as it allows more contact area with the male pin

@clipper said in Modify the connectors for NVIDIA GPUs:

Interestingly, the male connector is (was) identical on the PSU/GPU cable at both ends.
But only the connector on the GPU burns

Because the connection is much hotter on the graphics card than on the power supply.
That's why not everyone's melts, because it survives in more favorable conditions.

[Clipper]

Thus all of a sudden.
When the GeForce RTX 4XXX came out.
They said:
The heatsink is a brick because of a failure in the power consumption calculation.

That they burn due to poor assembly of the power cables.

That they release who knows how many new cables.

That if the failure is because some cables are soldered to the connectors and not crimped
That they should have put an intermediate element between the cable and the connector.
Etc.
I think I also read something about them saying that the connectors only "withstand" X connection and disconnection.
Because they take "slack".

Well...
I suppose that in the end they will come with a power strip and that everyone will have to put the cables
Regards

[defaultuser]

@clipper said in Modified the connectors for NVIDIA GPUs:

I guess in the end they will come with a power strip and that everyone puts the cables
Regards

I was going to be a saint's remedy

Honestly for companies of that technical level... with the money that a graphics card of those costs and that they haven't seen from the beginning that a different type of connector had to be used (or accept that it is even longer).
and on the other hand, the use of four-pin fastons instead of six-pin ones, will improve the electrical contact, but it's not going to change the fact that these connectors are not worth messing around with, they are more like a euroconnector than a sata, to say something.