Quote from: pickleburglar on February 02, 2018, 10:12:02 AM

Quote from: CryptoWatcher420 on February 02, 2018, 06:42:04 AM

omg guy theres a cheap tool to do that for you, makes it soooo much easier I know cause I have the little tool made by molex.

yea definitely gonna have to get one of those, my fingers are killing me Cheesy

Quote from: Vann on February 02, 2018, 07:12:13 AM

According to AWG standards 18 AWG wire is only 1 mm thick in diameter. Going by your pictures it certainly seems to be at least that thickness.

Its totally not though, its closer to half a millimeter in diameter. The black wire next to it is 20 AWG, the yellow one is thicker on the outside but its got a ridiculous core to insulation ratio.

Makes me wonder why they do this, why skimp so hard on the wire and make a useless (and dangerous) product if for a few extra cents they could make a good one...

The card it was connected to was a rx480 tuned for power efficiency, according to hwinfo, the card pulls around 80w and even that was enough to melt it.

80 W is about 7A, divided by 2 wires, it should be around 3.5A. So the quality of the wire is very bad then.