This cable is different than other ones because, well, it has yellow colour on it. That colour suddenly makes it more durable? Right. Connector is badly designed and adding some colour on it does not "fix" it. Simple as that.
And it didn't help. Connector is badly designed so adding some colour on it didn't help. Surprising isn't it?
Problem is: some claim all those cable burns were user error or something similar. Now, we have this kind of colour thing that was supposed to eliminate user error thing. And as we can see:
1. problem still exists
2. user error or not, this colour thing is not magically making problem disappear
We can safely conclude this "solution" is ineffective.
Why can't you grasp that one case of one coloured connector from one brand does not mean anything.
It's not even verified.
Now I will go off topic, hopefully that will make the specific issue in THIS thread clear to you.
1. Yes, lot's of melts. Probably a user proof coloured cable won't solve the issue becuase it's been found there are amateur errors within the card it'self. For example regardless of how great the cable was, if an RTX 5090 drew say 75w from the PCIe, very little from connector one, a little bit more from connector 2, and then all the rest through cable 3 it could end up drawing way over what one power slot is designed for.
Wether or not the 3rd slot had the regular cable or the colored one referenced in this thread both would melt. Any connection would over heat regardless of the quality of the cable.
This is a big and inexcusable problem. NV messed up bad. On that we agree. I don't think making super safe cables will solve the problem.
So HARDRESET:
The point that both myself and SquidSurprise are trying to point out is that this one example proves nothing that's not already known.
No real judgement can be made from one case for a whole line of cards. One case means nothing.
Additional as many, including yourself have noted, there are genuine melting problems and it would seem it's due to the amateurish way NV didn't implement a proper power distribution system.
Finally, if they had implemented it properly, so draw say 50w from the PCIe and then divide the rest of the power draw more or less equally among the others, then any cable, if properly plugged in (which I am sure the majority of people do - but that's a guess) there shouldn't be any cases of melting cables except for defective cards, regular or colored cable.
In the above paragraph scenario where the power sharing was done properly there would likely be one or two melted cables, there would likely be a few isolated problems with anything you can imagine, literally anything.
Electronics of all kinds have a failure rate. It varies, but it's between 1% to 3%.
So one issue of one serious problem (as long as it doesn't injure/ kill people) Will happen.
That's why we have RMA.
But these NV cards do have a very real problem, agreed. I don't know what the % of melting connectors of any type is, but it's clearly above what is industry acceptable. So many reports of it. I wouldn't be surprised if this melting happened, overtime to over 10% of cards. Totally unacceptable. It may be much higher.
I would be very interested to know roughly what the percentage of melted cables (of any kind) is. That would be very interesting to know. Does anyone know that figure? 2ndly What do you guys recokon the % of melting cable is at a guess?
So to HARDRESET. You mentioned a lot of repair shop cases, unreported cases and other things. I believe all you say, no argument there.
So if you know, or had to guess what do you think the real % of cards sold have melting cables?? I know the real figure is impossible for us to know, and NV play it down, but roughly you know first hand about this problem (repair shop comments) at a rough guess how high do you think the failure rate of power sockets/melting cards is??
