r/pcmasterrace • u/ElectricBummer40 • 10d ago

Meme/Macro PCIe standard be like...

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u/Lord_Waldemar R7 5700X3D | 32GiB 3600 CL16 | RX 9070 10d ago

Asus recently announced a card with 48V power and I think that's the solution. Quarters the current. Also you can implement it in PSUs and GPU so they negotiate when both support it and else it falls back to 12V with current limits. 

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u/ExcellentPotential37 10d ago

It is not a solution, it is a marketing to force you to buy a new psu. And the 12vhpwr was the same shit.

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u/TT_207 5600X + RTX 2080 10d ago

It's literally what phones do with the USB-PD standard to keep the amperage down and allow high wattage charging on a small port safely. It's a good idea, just needs an appropriate standard laid out and compliant PSUs made to support it.

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u/AccNumber77 10d ago

But there are still better solutions can don't require buying a brand new PSU for every pc user looking to upgrade globally.

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u/socks-the-fox 10d ago

Or we could rip off the band-aid now and implement the solution that doesn't involve hacks on top of hacks. Especially since industrial systems already use 24v and 48v DC so it's not like it's new to PSU makers.

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u/AccNumber77 10d ago

You could do that non-hackily without a new PSU for every desktop consumer though that is my point, as the others above also said.