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
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.