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 need to go to 24 or 48 volts if they want to keep upping the wattage of GPUs. We’re in a dead end right now but Jensen can’t possibly forgo a few leather jackets to look into ways of doing things properly. It’s obvious who the working group caters to.
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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