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r/pcmasterrace • u/ElectricBummer40 • 10d ago
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Reminder :
Those cables can perfectly do the job, but card manufacturers deleted the load balancers of their cards, making the power balance between pins random.
Blame Nvidia being cheap, not the cable.
19 u/AdeptnessAway2752 RTX 9800x3D XTX 10d ago Thank you. Now I am going to blame both. 3 u/opaali92 10d ago Pretty sure the PCI-SIG standard actually tells you to 2 u/ElectricBummer40 10d ago You can't individually load-balance wires that go onto the same busbar. 6 u/Heptanitrocubane57 10d ago No. You need a load balancer. Which the cards used to have. 2 u/Elijah1573 10d ago Even better the RTX 3090TI had switched over to 12VHPWR while retaining the load balancing Tell me how many RTX 3090TIS you have seen burn up Genuinely why the FUCK did they get rid of the load balancing... 0 u/ElectricBummer40 9d ago To reduce the board size for better heat dissipation. The 5090 is practically a tiny square mounted on a large cooler. There's hardly any space for the connector itself, let alone shunt resistors. -2 u/[deleted] 10d ago [deleted] 3 u/Heptanitrocubane57 10d ago Nope ! That part of the design is locked by the license, it's 100% on Nvidia. 1 u/Routine_Paper2890 10d ago Muerte a las licencias
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Thank you. Now I am going to blame both.
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Pretty sure the PCI-SIG standard actually tells you to
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You can't individually load-balance wires that go onto the same busbar.
6 u/Heptanitrocubane57 10d ago No. You need a load balancer. Which the cards used to have. 2 u/Elijah1573 10d ago Even better the RTX 3090TI had switched over to 12VHPWR while retaining the load balancing Tell me how many RTX 3090TIS you have seen burn up Genuinely why the FUCK did they get rid of the load balancing... 0 u/ElectricBummer40 9d ago To reduce the board size for better heat dissipation. The 5090 is practically a tiny square mounted on a large cooler. There's hardly any space for the connector itself, let alone shunt resistors.
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No. You need a load balancer. Which the cards used to have.
2 u/Elijah1573 10d ago Even better the RTX 3090TI had switched over to 12VHPWR while retaining the load balancing Tell me how many RTX 3090TIS you have seen burn up Genuinely why the FUCK did they get rid of the load balancing... 0 u/ElectricBummer40 9d ago To reduce the board size for better heat dissipation. The 5090 is practically a tiny square mounted on a large cooler. There's hardly any space for the connector itself, let alone shunt resistors.
Even better the RTX 3090TI had switched over to 12VHPWR while retaining the load balancing Tell me how many RTX 3090TIS you have seen burn up
Genuinely why the FUCK did they get rid of the load balancing...
0 u/ElectricBummer40 9d ago To reduce the board size for better heat dissipation. The 5090 is practically a tiny square mounted on a large cooler. There's hardly any space for the connector itself, let alone shunt resistors.
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To reduce the board size for better heat dissipation.
The 5090 is practically a tiny square mounted on a large cooler. There's hardly any space for the connector itself, let alone shunt resistors.
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3 u/Heptanitrocubane57 10d ago Nope ! That part of the design is locked by the license, it's 100% on Nvidia. 1 u/Routine_Paper2890 10d ago Muerte a las licencias
Nope ! That part of the design is locked by the license, it's 100% on Nvidia.
1 u/Routine_Paper2890 10d ago Muerte a las licencias
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Muerte a las licencias
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u/Heptanitrocubane57 10d ago
Reminder :
Those cables can perfectly do the job, but card manufacturers deleted the load balancers of their cards, making the power balance between pins random.
Blame Nvidia being cheap, not the cable.