Please don’t panic again, but the new adapter is so fragile that quality management and controls can’t be tough enough to ensure safe operation. And since there will be no media launch of the GeForce RTX 4080 Super tomorrow and no results can be published until the day after tomorrow, I’m going to focus today on a product that is not under NDA but has been on the market for a while: my beloved 12VHPWR 12V2x6 Adapter.
Why I have once again found such a product that is completely out of the norm can either be pure coincidence (or karma) and the adapter is a pure, individual Monday product or there are once again a certain number of such adapters in circulation that definitely do not lock into place. At least not the first 10 to 15 times they are plugged in. However, as the normal customer generally does not celebrate this with such frequency, I take today’s negative example as a warning to really pay attention to the certain, clearly audible click, i.e. the snap-in, when plugging in for the first time. It is therefore a well-intentioned hint, suitable for tomorrow’s launch and by no means a sensation. But I don’t want to pass it over without comment.
In addition to two videos that provide clear visual and audible evidence of what I experienced (please forgive me for the shaky smartphone recording), I naturally also examined the connectors and headers and found some amazing things. I actually wanted to close the topic for myself already, but I just can’t. The adapter tested today also comes from a graphics card package of a tested card that is still being launched and is therefore not a “legacy” from the good old 12VHPWR days, but brand new (pun intended). The companies affected have already been informed in advance, but unfortunately the flow of information is once again extremely sparse. Nonetheless: we should talk (or write) about it.
New card, new adapter, new luck?
As I generally test with what is supplied by the respective manufacturer, it is of course a matter of course for me to examine the header or adapter of each card more closely and, above all, to actively use it for the tests. I noticed that although the brand new adapter felt like it could be plugged in completely, the typical clicking sound for the locking mechanism was missing. I was also able to pull the adapter out again with relatively little force without having to release the lock. There simply wasn’t any. But just see and hear for yourself:
I ran the game over 10 times, 5 times on the card from the video and then several more times on an NVIDIA RTX 4080 FE and an Asus RTX 4090 Strix. And? Only after what felt like 15 to 20 times did it click slightly and the connector held a little tighter. As a counter-test, I documented an adapter of the GeForce RTX 4080 FE in the video, which was no longer brand new, but always clicked into place very clearly:
So I went in search of clues and thought about what could have been the cause. Please turn the page!
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