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Dawelio
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In HWU interview with der8auer and their booth, he said that with their thousands of units sold, he has had 3 RMA's. Which statistically sounds very low, hence despite the melting connector being an actual and real thing, it has been blown a bit out of proportion and become a bit of an meme to be honest.
thats still miniscule to the countless thousands sold by Cablemods etc. And its not blown out of proportion if the media is still reporting on it. Northbridge fix even show the flaw in the cable and connector design.
Connectors like this are supposed to be idiot proof so even if not in fully, should still be safe. These on the 4090 are not safe. How can you say its blown out of proportion if Cablemods did a mass recall? wouldnt you think they would double down and shift blame away if its such a meme as you say?
Connectors like this are supposed to be idiot proof so even if not in fully, should still be safe. These on the 4090 are not safe. How can you say its blown out of proportion if Cablemods did a mass recall? wouldnt you think they would double down and shift blame away if its such a meme as you say?
Dawelio
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As far as I know, CableMod did an full recall on their 90 degree adapters, haven't heard the same story of their cables. Unless I have missed something.
True, they should be idiot proof, yet they aren't. And from what I've seen, there haven't been thousands of reports of said issues. Maybe around hundreds I'd say and that's still statistically rather low in comparison to how many have been sold.
It can still be blown out of proportion even if the media is still reporting on it. That depends exactly on what the media is actually reporting on regarding said subject.
Again, if the percentage would be very high, than that would be something. But taking into account of many failures there have been, compared to how many cards have been sold, it's not that high, percentage wise, and hence been blown out of proportion. As with many things these days.
At the end of the day, I honestly don't really care regarding it all. Just simply fed up with all of the posts, comments etc regarding the melted connector.
It's like, yeah we know that any car can break. So what? We know it, just move on already... Like it's nothing new or anything like that, it's been blown out of proportion to the point it has become something of a meme. That's what I mean.
Northbridge Fix get around 200 a month with melted connectors. Thats one company doing repairs and doesnt even count those returned to the store/e-tailer or other repair technicians.
One engineer holding 1 full box. I'd say its more than a "few hundred" globally with the issue. And its reported that the issue still exists, and returns/repairs continue to rise. Feel free to zoom in and see that all these are melted.
You might not care, but if I was to drop 25,000nok on a card, I want peace of mind.
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Dawelio
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Fair points, although seeing as you don't seem to be dropping that cash on a card, ie not getting one... I don't understand what you even care as well? :lol:
NeverBackDown
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Why wouldn't you? Even the cheaper cards use the same connector. If this is the quality of parts we are to receive and people keep buying, why would they improve?
My current card may not last forever/break down. Since a 3090ti is no longer made, I may have to get another even if its free under warantee. That possibility will be there. And I would care anyway because if everyone starts having the "i dont give AF" attitude because it doesn't apply to them, positive change will never happen.
If people started actively boycotting with their wallets and not just saying they will before dumping excessive cash on sub par products, we might be living in a better consumer market.
Dawelio
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Cause the issues haven't been on the lower end cards now, have they? The reports have essentially only been regarding the 4090 due to it's high power draw.
Meanwhile I do agree with you, I don't have my hopes up regarding this. Nvidia is even bigger than it was when the 4000 series launch and before this whole connector fiasco. You think just because a small percentage of people vote with their wallet that it will have an effect? Not at all, that's being naive unfortunately.
Nvidia charges the prices because they can and they know people will buy their products anyway. So no need to try and "vote with ones wallet", that mentality doesn't work and any such company don't care anyway.
Either you pay the money or you don't, simple as that. Trying to "convince" an trillion dollar company is just fantasy land in all honesty. And we might be living in a better consumer market, that won't happen either.
Nvidia is a giant, AMD has become bigger than it has ever been and both has realised that people buy anyway, despite the price. And that's just the world we live in unfortunately.
I don't mean to be the negative person here, although just being realistic. I'd love to be the one who's wrong here and be corrected if all of this turns out to be false in the end
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Well, I like to be optimistic and see that we already saw minor positive change.
Lets take the "super" 4080s. Higher spec than its predescessor, yet same price. I would like to say thats because their asking price for the 4080 was ridiculous when you look at what AMD was also offering. Nvidia had to do something to get spending underway.
It worked in our favour. Nvidia could have set a higher price tag as you say, but I think consumer backlash may have gone against them. The GPU market is still outrageous but too many people see "want" over "need" and thats why they can charge what they want.
Lets take the "super" 4080s. Higher spec than its predescessor, yet same price. I would like to say thats because their asking price for the 4080 was ridiculous when you look at what AMD was also offering. Nvidia had to do something to get spending underway.
It worked in our favour. Nvidia could have set a higher price tag as you say, but I think consumer backlash may have gone against them. The GPU market is still outrageous but too many people see "want" over "need" and thats why they can charge what they want.
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