Yeah, but except for the six real people and the AI scalpers who managed to grab a 5090 it might not help much…
Last I heard it sounds like a problem with the design of the connector where it is possible to have the connector seated fully but still have poor contact for some of the conductors or signal wires?
The AMPs going through the small connectors is the problem,
The Connectors are small, they also cause a current heat point /bottleneck do to their size,
So what do they think is gonna happen?, Current and Heat Build up melting connectors.
Next Step is putting an inline bus fuse on every wire from the PSU to the Card, if one line goes over a specific amperage, it pops the fuse to avoid the connectors melting.
I’m sure you’re right on the next step, but part of me thinks this (or more than this) is the obvious solution:
Or, you know, make those little plugs bigger and the cable thicker?
Well about these power plugs there are better connectors that could be used like some from the automotive industry then these 12 power connectors they currently use…
not sure why they insist in using these inferior connectros especially in the 80/90 seris GPU’s with the amount of wattage they want to pump through them…
I sure hope it wasn’t a greed decision to save 2 cents per cable in manufacturing or something else as obscene…
they can do better
meanwhile no AMD 7900XTX has melted ;p
It’s almost like ATX 2 was a perfectly good standard and they just made it worse by messing with it?!
if only EK wasnt a shi show,
We’d have 12VHPWR water blocks, lmao.
Sapphire seems to be using the 12V 2x6 or whatever it’s called this week on one of their 9070 XT SKUs, and it seems like they’ve done a better job than nvidia but still lazy and kinda dangerous. Particularly when the other 9070s (including from Sapphire!!) use two or three 8-pin PCIe connectors!
