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I can't speak to what the other poster was talking about but NVidia 3000 series caused a huge stir because it would jump in power consumption much faster than p
by enragedcacti 4y ago
I can't speak to what the other poster was talking about but NVidia 3000 series caused a huge stir because it would jump in power consumption much faster than previous generations and many power supplies couldn't provide the wattage fast enough and would brown out the system. It was especially bad for low and mid-tier PSUs that were nearing their rated wattage limit at peak power.
edit: I misrembered some aspects of this, The 3000 series was actually spiking much higher than rated TDP and tripping overcurrent protection versus just browning out. NVidia did recommend 850w PSUs for that first release of cards for that reason but iirc some 850w still had issues.
- bioemerl 4y agoI put heavy blame on Nvidia for that one. There is no reason their cards should be pulling these huge transient spikes. By putting these cards out with this flaw, then pointing at the power supply manufacturers, they are causing a problem and blaming someone else for it. The power supply is just doing its job, when you far exceed its rating for even a short amount of time it's going to try to shut down to protect the computer because it thinks something inside of your computer is burning up.
- enragedcacti 4y agoyou're right, I forgot about the fact the spikes were far in excess of the TDP of the card, NVidia should have taken a lot more responsibility rather than let PSU mfgs take a lot of the heat.
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- navjack27 4y agoIt (3090) actually tripped out my quite expensive quite high-end seaSonic prime titanium 850 watt power supply. But it was perfectly fine on my old EVGA bronze 850 watt