Problem around melting/burning power connector of many units v GeForce RTX 4090 it starts to smell very bad, not because of the burns, but because of the position of the responsible company, NVIDIAIt looks fine. Shortly after the green giant released its version on the matter, we recently learned that a class action lawsuit was filed against the corporation over the above, which was expected if we see that there are aspects of the matter that are lame.

According to ExtremeTech and TechSpot, the person has filed a lawsuit in a California court in the United States. It should be noted that it is not clear how many people will join the class action, but apparently dozens of broken GeForce RTX 4090s have already been reported for the same reason, and in total about 100,000 units of the graphics card have been sold.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a person named Lucas Genova on November 11, 2022 in the Northern District Court of California. Plaintiff claims NVIDIA is guilty of fraud for selling graphics with known defects (we assume by the company itself) that cause cables and connectors to melt. In verbatim words and according to its version, Genova accuses NVIDIA of selling or selling “defective and unsafe power cords and connectors that have caused consumer cards to malfunction and pose a serious electrical and fire hazard to any purchaser“.

Faced with the incorrect position of the connector, Lucas Genova defends himself by saying that he is a person.Experience installing computer components such as graphics cards” and that he used best practices to avoid his RTX 4090 ending up broken as much as possible, but that he still failed.

The lawsuit was made public after Gamer Nexus published an investigation apportioning blame, but mainly pointing to misplacement of the connector by users. However, and as we have already said, there are things that falter even with regard to the investigation of the well-known YouTube channel, namely The 12-pin connector failed on the Ada Lovelave (RTX 4000) but on the Ampere (RTX 3000) and at the moment there is no record of the same or similar incidents with previous generation NVIDIA graphics.

It’s still too early to draw any conclusions, but with this lawsuit, NVIDIA and the GeForce RTX 4090 may be subject to further investigation to determine the true origin of the melting/burning issue.