GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4090 WindForce V2: Emphasis on Hiding Power Connector
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fantaskarsef
What an irony that it has the same big PCB gap to the connector like the cards reportedly bricking. Ironic, because that looks like an improvement for those worried about their cards burning due to missing depth and bent cables in their cases.
PC hardware in 2023 ladies and gents, where you try to decide which hardware design fail you want to get for those hundreds and thousands of quid.
o_O:D
Agonist
I swear, Sapphire is the only company worth a damn these days. XFX isnt bad but not the same level.
Gigabyte and ASUS are just a level of R*****ed these days.
geogan
I have Gigabyte 4080 vertically mounted in HAF700 case... for vertical mount the original power connector position is good enough still.
Reddoguk
I get it that the PCB gap is too large but what i don't understand is this, why are there traces through that part of the PCB or does the crack have to travel pretty far inwards to damage the card?
Venix
Hey this will be good for few months! Till the card start falling apart ! Combine it with a gigabyte psu and you will have premade shrapnel when their bomb psu go off ! Really military grade stuff made to deliver maximum damage !
schmidtbag
Seems like a really fun game actually:
Build a system using as many Gigabyte parts as you can. People take bets on which experiences hardware issues first.
Venix
Is like an ultra realistic rl game of mine sweeper!
TheDeeGee
Hiding it in plain sight, and taking away a huge chunk of surface area.
pegasus1
My Asus Rog 2070gtx 15.6" gaming laptop has the best build quality of any gaming laptop I've owned.
Then there's my Gigabyte 970gtx gaming laptop, about as far away from the ROG in build quality as its possible to get without falling off the edge of the universe.
fantaskarsef
On the screenshots it sometimes shows that the traces go around that corner pretty closely on some PCBs. Which I would basically see as an error, or mishap, or unlucky design on the trace side, which can't be the user's fault. Certainly, it's only added by larger coolers that made the sagging GPU an issue more prevalent. I don't think it's on every card's PCB, and maybe on other manufacturer's PCBs there's cracks as well, they just don't reach the traces because of more PCB space left that's unused, like a "crumple zone" in cars in case of structural issues (like an accident)
Ripcord
Its not the fact the gap is large that's the problem its that it is square in shape
Reddoguk
It will be interesting to see if they improve this flaw on future revisions. They should learn from this and fix it for later models.
If they don't then that's pish poor from GB. Maybe they don't change anything as that would mean their admitting it was poor design in the first place.
