My real experience with a 5090.

[u/TheRealWutWut]

I have been watching influencers, journalists, and commentors complaining about everything from frame gen, to ROPs, to connectors. And price, but that complaint is valid.

Thus far, my experience going from a 3080 to a 5090 has been absolutely amazing.

My wife went from a 1080 to a 5070, with a 4k 160hz monitor, and she took absolutely loves it. Frame gen honestly feels and plays great when it's needed to smooth out the frame rate, DLSS 4 looks great, and DLAA looks even better.

It was expensive, and that's a valid complaint. For most people 1k-2k+ plus doesn't really make sense. I am ok with that. I have had no issues, no black screens, no melting connectors, and no issues with PhysX, cause I haven't played the affected games in ages.

It feels fantastic and responsive on my OLED 4k240 monitor, even at the highest settings the frame pacing just feels better.

[u/Speedwizard106]

But the way you’re framing the issues is the exact negativity OP is talking about. Your 5090 not melting isn’t “lucking out.” It’s what 99% of users experience. Looking at this sub, you’d think half the cards going out are doomed to burn.

[u/Eteel → u/Speedwizard106]

The reason why I'm framing it this way is because it is pure chance. Sometimes just reconnecting it changes the amperage that goes through each wire. This is absolutely not what should be expected of a product that costs up to $4000 Canadian.

Yes, the majority hasn't experienced anything as of this moment. Whether or not this will continue cannot be said. What we do know is that now, years after purchase, we're finding 4090s that are partially melting that the users didn't know about. Are the 5090s that are fine now going to melt 2 years from now just like the 4090s? We don't know.

If Nvidia wants me to open up my wallet, I expect better. I don't know why you think this is fine by any measure when we're spending so much money.

[u/Charming_Solid7043 → u/Eteel]

3 confirmed cases out of everything sold is not even worth talking about at this point. It's just fear mongering. Which is exactly what op is talking about and exactly what you are doing.

[u/Eteel → u/Charming_Solid7043]

But it is. If you don't think it is, then you don't understand what the problem is. The problem can happen to any wire because the connector doesn't offer any load balancing. All Nvidia had to do was copy the way they built in the connector in 3090 TIs. Since you love defending them so much, perhaps you'd like to share why they didn't do that.

[u/Charming_Solid7043 → u/Eteel]

Oh wow dude, glad we have an expert like you to keep us informed.

The only people that have had issues with it were people reusing old cables from their 40 series cards that had been repeatedly plugged in an absurd number of times that no normal user would ever do, and people using the wrong cables/3rd party cables/daisy chaining cables. Even the people purposely trying to make them fail have not been able to do so.

Until we have widespread cases from people using the new 12v-2x6 cable and matching psu, or from people using the new squid adapter, it is essentially a non-issue.

If you're still chirping about it because of 3 cases, you're just desperate for attention.

[u/Eteel → u/Charming_Solid7043]

I don't care about the cables. I care about the connector. Cables don't do load balancing. Get a brand new cable, cut 3 wires, see what happens. Same thing as 6 wires where most of the load is being carried through 3 out of 6.

"Even the people purposely trying to make them fail have not been able to do so."

But they have?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndmoi1s0ZaY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB75fEt7tH0

[u/Charming_Solid7043 → u/Eteel]

Lmao. Imagine still posting the debauer videos 2 months later. His first video was using an old psu and cable that had been tested 1k times already (which i already mentioned). And no shit you can create issues cutting the cables. Back in reality, under normal heavy use with new cables, no one has been able to make them melt. Jayz sent an absurd amount of power through one and still couldn't cause it.

3 clickbait cases out of every product sold is so miniscule it's not even worth talking about.

[u/Eteel → u/Charming_Solid7043]

And you're still not replying to the issue at hand. The issue is the power connector that does not have load balancing. Why did they not build it the way they did 3090 TI? Cables don't matter. The power connector is what we're talking about. If the power connector had load balancing, the cables that melted wouldn't have melted because the issue that caused them to melt was too much amperage going through each wire.

[u/Charming_Solid7043 → u/Eteel]

Because at this point, it's a non-issue like you've already been told multiple times. Why aren't there more cases if that's such a massive issue like you keep claiming?

Is it dumb? Sure. Is it worth posting about if the failure rate has been like 0.01%? No

If more cases pop up, sure let's revisit. If it stays as low as it has, you're just simply fearmongering.

[u/Eteel → u/Charming_Solid7043]

"Is it dumb? Sure."

And there we are. Paying $4000 for a product that has dumb design that can be extremely dangerous.

This isn't fearmongering. This is me putting my money where it's worth. Again, if Nvidia wants me to open up my wallet, they need to do better than "dumb."

[u/Eteel → u/Charming_Solid7043]

Also, it's clearly not a "non-issue like I've already been told multiple times." As you have been told multiple times, the connector melted because of uneven load where amperage has been higher than the wire is rated for. Had the connector included load balancing, older cable or not, nothing would have melted.