**The Great Adapter Debate: A Closer Look**

Now I still stand by the adapter on like 480s and down even though a few 480s did melt in very rare instances it's about the loose connection and the high wattage that a 490 can pull so 4070 TI 4070 4080 4060 TI they're not going to melt the connector more than likely just because they don't pull the amount of Watts so what they said is that they have fixed this adapter or or this plug to have a tighter fit so that's what I'm going to test right now okay it already takes quite a bit more Force to get it to connect but it still has it can still pull out slightly when it's in its furthest out I think that's just got to be the speck of this plug because it's this clip this clip right here needs to be like 1/4 millim or a half millim shorter you can hear it you can hear it unseat now I love cable mod and I think they're trying and it's tighter it's a tighter fit I feel like either they changed the pin type not sure exactly what kind of pins these are can't really tell without a magnifying glass it certainly does feel tighter like when it's seated down that sucker is definitely tighter in there there's no doubt about it like it's pretty firm tighter than the V1 for sure I'm want to preface this by saying I have a 90° adapter V1 at home I check it regularly I also have one in my A180 adapter V1 in my workstation here with a 4090 in it that I also check regularly now so far I have not seen any signs of melting or failure and I'm constantly like paranoid about that and pushing it in and make sure it's tight and it's never moved on me so I I don't know I still feel like there's there's more things at play here jeez okay you do need more effort to remove it I'm going to give them that um I'm really excited to see what their V2 is going to be um I know they've told me about it I think it'll be a big deal I hope enough people still have faith in the brand to not like oh yeah do you see okay there's one of your major differences here it's hard for me to make a video to really show you guys like force I can't show you force in a video like this so when I go to pick up the graphics card by the adapter which is probably not recommended you'll notice it move it's still going to have that side to side wiggle no matter what but it's not unseating itself I guess we could take this to our microscope real quick and just kind of look at it closely let's go do that and then we'll wrap this up

**The Science Behind the Adapter**

Let's take a closer look at the adapter using a microscope. As you can see, there is a dimple design on the adapter which is held in place by three pins. It appears to be made of metal and has a certain weight to it. The difference between this adapter and the previous one is that it has a tighter fit when seated into the socket. This is likely due to changes made to the pin type or design. However, it's still unclear what kind of pins these are as they cannot be seen with the naked eye. One long dimple on this adapter suggests that it may not have the same level of friction as the triple dimple design found on the previous adapter.

**My Experience with the Adapter**

I've been using the new adapter in my A180 build and I'm excited to see how it performs. So far, I haven't seen any signs of melting or failure which is a great relief. However, I do need more force to remove the adapter than before, which could be a sign that something is still wrong. Despite this, I'm willing to give it another try and see if it continues to perform well. The brand has been in touch with me and they've told me that they've not had any failures so far, but I want to make sure to use my own judgment when it comes to using the adapter.

**The Replacement Program**

The company behind the adapter has implemented a replacement program for those who have purchased one of the old adapters. If you're worried about your adapter melting or failing, they've got you covered. They're not even asking for the return of the old adapter, but rather providing a coupon to get a new one free of charge. I'm really hoping that this new design will continue to perform well and avoid any issues.

**Conclusion**

It's been an interesting journey watching the evolution of the adapter. From the initial concerns about melting and failure to the latest design which has a tighter fit and seems more secure, it's clear that the company is committed to making things right. I'm excited to see how this new design performs and whether it will address all the issues with the previous one. As always, I'll be keeping a close eye on this adapter and providing updates as necessary.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enokay on the uh subject of melting cable mod uh adapters we have received in the mail and this is not a sponsored video but we've received in the mail a v1.1 adapter which is supposed to address a few things that we had concerns with on this and um yeah so today I want to I want to check a few things with this adapter and see what what's different so this is the 12vt high power angled adapter cable mod makes them in 90° and 180° variance uh a variant a and a variant B because each graphics card kind of variant a and variant b a quick explanation is just are the sense pins on the top or the sense pins on the bottom cuz that adapter can be upside down versus other graphics cards um but on first look um this piece is metal right here and then it's got obviously our connector and then it's got a little PCB in there I'm going take this apart real quick cuz I want to check out the inside too cuz there's a few complaints that I had about this and I and I talked about it in my video and it's they told me via email that they listened to some of my gripes about it and that was just that it was Wiggly that it was too loose like this connector was too loose in uh the GPU itself and I'll demonstrate that in a second but it's just a rigid PCB that goes from a female to a male that's how it adapts and the whole point of this is because the rad the bending radius of the 12vt high power connector is just it's you can't bend it super tighter you can pull the pins out with many cases in your GPU horizontal and then a big old plug you can't get the side panel on so then they came out with well this one technically would be the wrong variant because this pushes it up right so as an example what variant is this this is variant uh a so variant B would put it this way but one of my biggest complaints and and I'll show it in a sec after we look at the P at the PCB um see you can even see this guy look look you can see that kind of Wiggles in there so here's what it looks like on the other side there's a little heat sink or not heat sink but a little thermal pad on here which is designed to I guess they were trying to keep the heat down in there for voltage reasons to turn this into sort of a heat sink if you will and then you can see the traces right here on the PCB you can see it wiggling in the connector right there so I'm I I don't know if this was part of the problem or not but that's one of the things I want to check on the new adapter like has that wiggle improved at at all like I'm going to have to mark our 1. ons that way I know which one's which I I can't find my silver Sharpie so bronze is what I've got they do have a different adapter coming I can tell you that they've been talking to me about that behind the scenes I'm not going to talk about it in this video but I'm just letting you know that they're they're calling it 1.1 one like V2 cuz there is a different morbin intelligent adapter coming as a V2 um I think they're going to call it V2 I don't know but more on that when it's ready if I take this off it's a bigger heat like heat pad so it's touching the entire backside now um but for all intents and purposes it looks pretty much identical although these tra these brass traces or whatever these are right here look a bit thicker than what was on the V1 you can see that the v1s have what look like three lines going through it and then these are like solid solid solid but it looks like exactly the same realistically what is what they've addressed and they said that they've changed with this is the um the tightness at which it fits in the GPU itself because that was where my major concern was I talked about the fact that it was Wiggly and my concerns were if the root cause of 490s melting their plug is because of poor contact because it might have wiggled its way loose a little bit inside of the uh GPU plug I showed that the V1 had all kinds of slack where it could actually pull its way out a bit before the retention tab hit so let me get this one back together and I'll show you one of the things that sucks about variant B is when you plug it in the tab is underneath it so I'll use the old one first so when you plug it in in order to get it undone you got to use something like spudger tool or something cuz you cannot get your finger under there to get it out so you just got to push push it in there there it is so there I can already feel how much more Wiggly this is though than that one so here is my problem and I pointed this out when it's in there it's very wobbly and if you look closely here at the top top down view look how far out I can pull it before the retention tab like the the clip stops it from pulling back so really the clip should be when it's all the way in so because that clip has all of that like it's clipped in but do you see how Wiggly this is and this and this adapter wiggling this side by side that's what I was just talking about the fact that it needs to be a little bit more supported here um that's just so that you don't accidentally break it while cable managing and stuff cuz you do have quite a torque angle on this if you go pulling cables anyway um that's very loose you can hear it listen that's part of what the issue was with the v1s and why so many of them started failing now the the the Saving Grace for cable mod was the fact that they had a no-nonsense warranty where they would replace the adapter and get your graphics card either repaired or replaced depending on the level of damage um they did request that you go try and go through the manufacturer warranty first first for the graphics card which were like 99% of the time denied um ever since Nvidia came out and said oh it's user error so the graphics card companies were just like yeah user error even though it was a bad design and so they wouldn't fix anything or repair anything so cable mod absorbed all the cost for that it's unfortunate that because these started failing at a rate that was so high that um the the sentiment on like Reddit and stuff has been just don't buy the adapter now I still stand by the adapter on like 480s and down even though a few 480s did melt in very rare instances it's about the loose connection and the high wattage that a 490 can pull so 4070 TI 4070 4080 4060 TI they're not going to melt the connector more than likely just because they don't pull the amount of Watts so what they said is that they have fixed this adapter or or this plug to have a tighter fit so that's what I'm going to test right now okay it already takes quite a bit more Force to get it to connect but it still has it can still pull out slightly when it's in its furthest out I think that's just got to be the speck of this plug because it's this clip this clip right here needs to be like a/4 millim or a half millim shorter you can hear it you can hear it unseat now I love cable mod and I think they're trying and it's tighter it's a tighter fit I feel like either they changed the pin type not sure exactly what kind of pins these are can't really tell without a magnifying glass it certainly does feel tighter like when it's seated down that sucker is definitely tighter in there there's no doubt about it like it's pretty firm tighter than the V1 for sure I'm want to preface this by saying I have a 90° adapter V1 at home I check it regularly I also have one in my a 180 adapter V1 in my workstation here with a 4090 in it that I also check regularly now so far I have not seen any signs of of melting or failure and I'm constantly like paranoid about that and pushing it in and make sure it's tight and it's never moved on me so I I don't know I still feel like there's there's more things at play here jeez okay you do need more effort to remove it I'm going to give them that um I'm really excited to see what their V2 is going to be um I know they've told me about it I think it'll be a big deal I hope enough people still have faith in the brand to not like oh yeah do you see okay there's one of your major differences here it's hard for me to make a video to really show you guys like force I can't show you force in a video like this so when I go to pick up the graphics card by the adapter which is probably not recommended you'll notice it move it's still going to have that side to side wiggle no matter what but it's not unseating itself I guess we could take this to our microscope real quick and just kind of look at it closely let's go do that and then we'll wrap this up like it's not much of a video other than say it fits tighter I'm going to be switching to the new one for obvious reasons there's a reason why it exists but let's go look at the microscope see it is the dimple design still so they didn't go with the four-prong which I think would have been nice yeah there's three all right so it's still the three dimple design I don't know why it's a different color so if we look at this one here for comparison is that just one long dimple yeah it's just a long dimple huh huh okay they are definitely using different pins so that's what we're going to go ahead and call it um clearly the the triple dimple is holding stronger than whatever appears to be just one long dimple on on here so that I guess that's what we can attribute the uh it's funny you would think a longer dimple would have greater like friction Force but apparently that's not the case all right guys I'm going to keep using it I I'm I keep using them and trying to see if anything will melt for me they haven't but that's not to take away from the situation that they have melted and and contined to melt I will say this I don't want to jinx it okay did tell me since the replacement program which by the way if you have one of the old ones for free they are replacing it for you they're not even asking for this one back but they are probably like maybe you shouldn't use it if you're worried about it but they're giving you a a coupon to basically get a replacement for free uh to the new design they said they have not had one fail yet I'm really hoping I'm not jinxing them right now but they said they have not had one fail yet and they started this program months ago fingers crossed I'll be using it in my build like I said all right guys thanks for watching we'll see you in the next oneokay on the uh subject of melting cable mod uh adapters we have received in the mail and this is not a sponsored video but we've received in the mail a v1.1 adapter which is supposed to address a few things that we had concerns with on this and um yeah so today I want to I want to check a few things with this adapter and see what what's different so this is the 12vt high power angled adapter cable mod makes them in 90° and 180° variance uh a variant a and a variant B because each graphics card kind of variant a and variant b a quick explanation is just are the sense pins on the top or the sense pins on the bottom cuz that adapter can be upside down versus other graphics cards um but on first look um this piece is metal right here and then it's got obviously our connector and then it's got a little PCB in there I'm going take this apart real quick cuz I want to check out the inside too cuz there's a few complaints that I had about this and I and I talked about it in my video and it's they told me via email that they listened to some of my gripes about it and that was just that it was Wiggly that it was too loose like this connector was too loose in uh the GPU itself and I'll demonstrate that in a second but it's just a rigid PCB that goes from a female to a male that's how it adapts and the whole point of this is because the rad the bending radius of the 12vt high power connector is just it's you can't bend it super tighter you can pull the pins out with many cases in your GPU horizontal and then a big old plug you can't get the side panel on so then they came out with well this one technically would be the wrong variant because this pushes it up right so as an example what variant is this this is variant uh a so variant B would put it this way but one of my biggest complaints and and I'll show it in a sec after we look at the P at the PCB um see you can even see this guy look look you can see that kind of Wiggles in there so here's what it looks like on the other side there's a little heat sink or not heat sink but a little thermal pad on here which is designed to I guess they were trying to keep the heat down in there for voltage reasons to turn this into sort of a heat sink if you will and then you can see the traces right here on the PCB you can see it wiggling in the connector right there so I'm I I don't know if this was part of the problem or not but that's one of the things I want to check on the new adapter like has that wiggle improved at at all like I'm going to have to mark our 1. ons that way I know which one's which I I can't find my silver Sharpie so bronze is what I've got they do have a different adapter coming I can tell you that they've been talking to me about that behind the scenes I'm not going to talk about it in this video but I'm just letting you know that they're they're calling it 1.1 one like V2 cuz there is a different morbin intelligent adapter coming as a V2 um I think they're going to call it V2 I don't know but more on that when it's ready if I take this off it's a bigger heat like heat pad so it's touching the entire backside now um but for all intents and purposes it looks pretty much identical although these tra these brass traces or whatever these are right here look a bit thicker than what was on the V1 you can see that the v1s have what look like three lines going through it and then these are like solid solid solid but it looks like exactly the same realistically what is what they've addressed and they said that they've changed with this is the um the tightness at which it fits in the GPU itself because that was where my major concern was I talked about the fact that it was Wiggly and my concerns were if the root cause of 490s melting their plug is because of poor contact because it might have wiggled its way loose a little bit inside of the uh GPU plug I showed that the V1 had all kinds of slack where it could actually pull its way out a bit before the retention tab hit so let me get this one back together and I'll show you one of the things that sucks about variant B is when you plug it in the tab is underneath it so I'll use the old one first so when you plug it in in order to get it undone you got to use something like spudger tool or something cuz you cannot get your finger under there to get it out so you just got to push push it in there there it is so there I can already feel how much more Wiggly this is though than that one so here is my problem and I pointed this out when it's in there it's very wobbly and if you look closely here at the top top down view look how far out I can pull it before the retention tab like the the clip stops it from pulling back so really the clip should be when it's all the way in so because that clip has all of that like it's clipped in but do you see how Wiggly this is and this and this adapter wiggling this side by side that's what I was just talking about the fact that it needs to be a little bit more supported here um that's just so that you don't accidentally break it while cable managing and stuff cuz you do have quite a torque angle on this if you go pulling cables anyway um that's very loose you can hear it listen that's part of what the issue was with the v1s and why so many of them started failing now the the the Saving Grace for cable mod was the fact that they had a no-nonsense warranty where they would replace the adapter and get your graphics card either repaired or replaced depending on the level of damage um they did request that you go try and go through the manufacturer warranty first first for the graphics card which were like 99% of the time denied um ever since Nvidia came out and said oh it's user error so the graphics card companies were just like yeah user error even though it was a bad design and so they wouldn't fix anything or repair anything so cable mod absorbed all the cost for that it's unfortunate that because these started failing at a rate that was so high that um the the sentiment on like Reddit and stuff has been just don't buy the adapter now I still stand by the adapter on like 480s and down even though a few 480s did melt in very rare instances it's about the loose connection and the high wattage that a 490 can pull so 4070 TI 4070 4080 4060 TI they're not going to melt the connector more than likely just because they don't pull the amount of Watts so what they said is that they have fixed this adapter or or this plug to have a tighter fit so that's what I'm going to test right now okay it already takes quite a bit more Force to get it to connect but it still has it can still pull out slightly when it's in its furthest out I think that's just got to be the speck of this plug because it's this clip this clip right here needs to be like a/4 millim or a half millim shorter you can hear it you can hear it unseat now I love cable mod and I think they're trying and it's tighter it's a tighter fit I feel like either they changed the pin type not sure exactly what kind of pins these are can't really tell without a magnifying glass it certainly does feel tighter like when it's seated down that sucker is definitely tighter in there there's no doubt about it like it's pretty firm tighter than the V1 for sure I'm want to preface this by saying I have a 90° adapter V1 at home I check it regularly I also have one in my a 180 adapter V1 in my workstation here with a 4090 in it that I also check regularly now so far I have not seen any signs of of melting or failure and I'm constantly like paranoid about that and pushing it in and make sure it's tight and it's never moved on me so I I don't know I still feel like there's there's more things at play here jeez okay you do need more effort to remove it I'm going to give them that um I'm really excited to see what their V2 is going to be um I know they've told me about it I think it'll be a big deal I hope enough people still have faith in the brand to not like oh yeah do you see okay there's one of your major differences here it's hard for me to make a video to really show you guys like force I can't show you force in a video like this so when I go to pick up the graphics card by the adapter which is probably not recommended you'll notice it move it's still going to have that side to side wiggle no matter what but it's not unseating itself I guess we could take this to our microscope real quick and just kind of look at it closely let's go do that and then we'll wrap this up like it's not much of a video other than say it fits tighter I'm going to be switching to the new one for obvious reasons there's a reason why it exists but let's go look at the microscope see it is the dimple design still so they didn't go with the four-prong which I think would have been nice yeah there's three all right so it's still the three dimple design I don't know why it's a different color so if we look at this one here for comparison is that just one long dimple yeah it's just a long dimple huh huh okay they are definitely using different pins so that's what we're going to go ahead and call it um clearly the the triple dimple is holding stronger than whatever appears to be just one long dimple on on here so that I guess that's what we can attribute the uh it's funny you would think a longer dimple would have greater like friction Force but apparently that's not the case all right guys I'm going to keep using it I I'm I keep using them and trying to see if anything will melt for me they haven't but that's not to take away from the situation that they have melted and and contined to melt I will say this I don't want to jinx it okay did tell me since the replacement program which by the way if you have one of the old ones for free they are replacing it for you they're not even asking for this one back but they are probably like maybe you shouldn't use it if you're worried about it but they're giving you a a coupon to basically get a replacement for free uh to the new design they said they have not had one fail yet I'm really hoping I'm not jinxing them right now but they said they have not had one fail yet and they started this program months ago fingers crossed I'll be using it in my build like I said all right guys thanks for watching we'll see you in the next one\n"