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I've never heard of other connectors melting though. They might be rated for only so many cycles, but how many real cycles are required for them to melt like th
by Sakos 4y ago
I've never heard of other connectors melting though. They might be rated for only so many cycles, but how many real cycles are required for them to melt like these adapters?
- mschuster91 4y agoOutside of the motherboard and GPU connectors, no other connector in a PC draws these levels of insane amount of current. Basically that's DVD/BD drives and spinning rust HDDs.
- mastax 4y ago"Molex" connectors (the 4-pin ones used for fans and DVD drives etc.) are notorious for melting, and molex-to-sata adapters especially. It wasn't unheard-of for PCIe connectors to melt either.
- pixl97 4y agoAs Mastax said, I've had multiple molex connectors melt over the decades across a fleet of PCs. I've seen one SATA power connector melt. I've had numerous of the 4 pin aux power connectors to motherboards melt. But note this is across fleets of thousands of PCs. In my early days I saw a Pentium process melt the socket off the board. I don't understand how it didn't trip the power before it got that far.