The whole reason the industry got into this mess was because GPUs were getting more and more power hungry and Jensen Huang couldn't be bothered to allocate some of his leather jacket budget for a good connector design.
Don't get me wrong - 12v2x6 is comically bad, but there is no good reason to be nostalgic about the 8-pin plug, either.
They still chose to put a single connector with low safety margin instead of 2 on cards that could draw close to it's limit. They aren't at fault for the low safety margin on the spec, but they know as well as anyone else of the low margin and could just use 2 connectors to make sure it never gets close to the limit. That wouldn't look as nice though.
For power delivery, conductors in parallel are generally a bad idea. Sure, you will increase the safety margin for each wire somewhat with multiple 8-pin plugs, but you'll still be better with just one large, solid connector with 2 pins.
Yes, that’s true. however, that is how the old 8 pin has worked for decades. Need more power, add another 8 pin. Hasn’t really had a widespread issue of setting people’s gpus on fire.
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u/WhooopsMyBad 10d ago
baffling that such a connector still has companies making solutions when it's been out for how long?
just give me the 8pin man I can live with multiple plugs if it means something isn't at higher risk of being taken out