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What an easily discreditable article. The comments on the 12VHPWR connector (while calling it a 12HPWR) are a joke where they setup the situation, comment Nvidi
by agloe_dreams 3y ago
What an easily discreditable article. The comments on the 12VHPWR connector (while calling it a 12HPWR) are a joke where they setup the situation, comment Nvidia's claims, and then just go rogue on the cause blaming the power consumption of the card instead of extremely well-defined research showing faulty connectors that make a bad connection and poor information available to customers caused the failures. Obviously a faulty connector will fail faster if it gets more power though it. Meanwhile the 4090 isd actually rather efficient and the article downright ignores the entire rest of the lineup having better performance/watt.
- ls612 3y agoThe only thing is that there were a bunch of 3rd party adapters (and a couple first party ones too) which had design or manufacturing flaws which caused them to melt. This kinda muddied the waters on the issue this year but it seems that the vast majority of issues after the problem was figured out were due to the specific 3rd party product. It’s also the fact to some degree that the safety factor on the 12vhpwr connector is less than the old 8-pin, so smaller issues lead to melting. I know that I am slightly stressed about my 4090 even though I’ve thoroughly verified that it’s fully plugged in.