Was playing games when all of a sudden my computer crashed and I smelled something burning. My heart sank as I did some investigating and found the culprit. One of the 8 pin power connectors for my 7800xt completely fried. Fingers crossed the GPU is okay, I have to find my PSU's cables to be sure, but my hopes aren't high. I knew they had issues with GPU power connectors in the past but I didn't pay much attention to it as the issues were with Nvidia GPUs and the 12V high-power adaptors or whatever. I guess I'll reach out to cablemod and Sapphire and see what we can do but this sucks.
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why you dont use your psu cables instead of third party cables?
Anytime I see cablemod posts, something is always on fire.
Post it also in the cablemod sub here. There is always support that helps getting you refunded
> latest victim
I’ve only ever heard bad things about their right-angle 12VHPWR adapters. I haven’t had any issues with their cables. It’s especially surprising to see problems with the tried-and-true 8-pin PCIe connector. I wonder where the fault was in this case.
Wear gloves, the PC has a virus
I had something very similar happen with my xtx they sent new cables but I ended up just using my PSU cables and it was fine.
Update: Found my PSU’s cables and swapped them for Cablemod’s with the same result. GPU is toast. 😞
Is this an old one or is the new batch bad as well?