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People haven't had to buy new PSUs. The adapter has the circuitry built in to detect how many of the connections are populated. For each one, the 40xx cards wil
by ziml77 4y ago
People haven't had to buy new PSUs. The adapter has the circuitry built in to detect how many of the connections are populated. For each one, the 40xx cards will raise their power limits by 150W.
- rasz 4y agofun fact - that circuity is totally superfluous. Connector itself has 4 small pins underneath main ones specifically for detection. Nvidia did Apple here inventing stupid shit to make it proprietary. All this circuity does is 4 to 2 binary encoding.
- cmsj 4y agoIt's not proprietary, the connector is called 12VHPWR and it's specified by the PCI SIG.
- rasz 4y agoNot the connector, additional useless chip Nvidia put in it encoding 4 signals into two pins, and leaving 2 remaining pins unpopulated.
- arka2147483647 4y agoUsefull to have unused pins, if you have to update it to support 1000w in the future
- rasz 4y agoSometimes its good to stop and think a second longer. This "600W" connector is already melting, and you want to pump 1000W thru it?