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No kidding, wonder why?
Because no one is going to pay $1200 for a $500 GPU. >

$1800 for a significant fire hazard. >

I had to look that up so I could worry about something else, lol. I’m seeing the GTX 4090 is catching fire and I guess for the rest keep them clean, well ventilated and pray. >

It's the cheaply-made angled power connector that is prone to failure (melting), not the thermal output of the card itself. >

Nah, Gamer's Nexus did some exceptional reporting on this, and the primary issue is user error (though NVIDIA shares some blame for making the 4090 so large and awkward with a weird power adapter). >

I'd personally say it goes beyond user error when the connector seemingly requires an obscene amount of force to be fully connected. That seems more of a design flaw to me. >

The way these things SHOULD be designed is that as it comes unplugged, the sense pins should always disconnect first, safely turning off the GPU. This new connector fails at this, causing the card to think it's fully connected, but really it's barely in the socket, resulting in high resistance and a melting connector.
Connection order is basically connector design 101, even for low power stuff... If you look at the inside of a USB A connector, you'll notice 2 contacts are longer, which guarantees power and ground are connected before data. Without that devices could potentially draw power over the data pins, and cause all sorts of havoc.
Even PCI-E cards, which most people wouldn't consider to be "hot pluggable"  have 2 shortened pins so that a card is guaranteed to be fully connected before the presence pins are connected (located on each end of the card, so it works even if the card is at an angle). >

So has my bank account...