So remind me again of why it's a good idea to have only one 12VHPWR connector on an AIB card with 600W+ BIOS options?
So remind me again of why it's a good idea to have only one 12VHPWR connector on an AIB card with 600W+ BIOS options?
Gotta love that RTX Planned Obsolescence."Jensen, people aren't upgrading because we're only adding 10% performance after 2 years and they've gotten wise to our VRAM tricks. What can we do?"
"They can't keep their old GPU if they no longer have an old GPU. Mwahaha."
It's a great idea if the $2k+ GPU fails out of warranty.
Nobody wanted your 4090 to suffer damage. Many peoples' did, and NV has never been held to account for it. Even the space invaders problem got more traction than this.As much as the doomsayers wish it... no melty melty. 4090 also fine.
So remind me again of why it's a good idea to have only one 12VHPWR connector on an AIB card with 600W+ BIOS options?
. . . which is what AIB card owners have been doing for decades. That's no excuse.Generally OC these cards makes little sense, you are are producing massively more heat with a bigger power draw for marginal performance increases.
. . . which is what AIB card owners have been doing for decades. That's no excuse.
I smell crap from start to end. Good luck overclocking your fans to use 100W.DISCUSS!
I smell crap from start to end. Good luck overclocking your fans to use 100W.
That didn't take long. The Buildzoid video linked by @IEC goes into it pretty well, but a tl;dr from the video (and videocardz article):And here we go:
Basic Safety Factor Requirements:
- 12VHPWR has a Safety Factor of 14% ONLY
- 125% is straight out of the National Electric Code (NEC). The code specs the maximum continuous current should be 80% of rated capacity
- Safety Factors of 2x is normal for Civil Engineering based Electrical Codes
4090 overclockers be likePost is now flagged as misinformation, because same user bragged about running at max OC forever:
Poster has deleted most of his top OC threads, since this was pointed out but you can still see the threads:
One poster even tells him, he's going to blow his 12v power connector and he says it won't. , and also says: "I paid for 100% of the voltage limit, im gonna use 100% of the voltage limit. Haha"
Basically all sliders to max...
Safety factor of 14% is crazy. What the hell were they thinking, using this to a >$2000 consumer electronics product?Also as a side note, here's a great comment from one of users on videocardz, Kamen Rider Blade:
That encapsulates everything wrong with how NV is using 12VHPWR/12v-2x6.
Safety factor of 14% is crazy. What the hell were they thinking, using this to a >$2000 consumer electronics product?
Even 25% is low, this should be 50% or higher.
This is not true.Safety factor is already built into the micro-fit connectors themselves. You don't need to stack another safety factor on top.
This is not true.
Safety factor in an electrical circuit refers to how much above-spec current can pass through that same circuit. That means the actual safety factor is always the lowest-common denominator within the circuit.
And 15% is absurdly low, considering how much current is going through those pins.
Alternate current, RMS means ~10.6 amp and on much bigger connectors.You have 15 amp plugs all over your home,
They don't stack, that's exactly my point.appliances aren't limited to 7.5 AMPs to stack another safety factor on top.
🤦♂️That isn't how this works.
They don't stack, that's exactly my point.
The safety factor number corresponds to the lowest common denominator.
Doesn't matter if you have a safety factor of 3 in one part of the circuit. If the safety factor in any part of the circuit is 1.15, then that's the safety factor for the entire circuit.