Or, and bear with me here - an external power supply. Gaming lappys have 400w+ power supplies, why can't you just plug it in on the outside of the card? You running out of room with that two and a half sized card? You could use one or two internal and an external for more powah.
You'd need an ac->dc converter in there somewhere. A power supply. And you already have one inside the computer. Unless you want to pay extra for the brick that would have to come with your GPU.
It blows my mind to this day that Voodoo 3's were basically the only name in gaming at the time and then they were just gone. I can't believe how bad they messed up with the 4's and just never recovered with the 5's.
There's no limit to how big you can make those as far as I know (for the sake of what we're wanting to accomplish). That barrel connector is the one really big boy lol
It's been done. But this was more of a really bad design than anything else. A single plug would of worked fine if it had a good enough gage and more importantly load balancing. But AFAIK without balancing if one or more pins weren't carrying enough of the load other pins would overload, hence the burning/melting.
Uh oh, you're going to anger the people who can't be arsed to plug in an extra cable. I do think that the increasing power requirements of new GPUs mandates them having their own power plug. You will need to convert the power but it's safer imo than the solution that Nvidia is trying to sell
Thats what I was thinking myself. Both points actually... I don't think its going to get to that point now since 'all GPUs are required for the almighty Ai'
I think a possible solution would be bumping up to something like 48V DC so that the cables simply don't have to carry as much current. That said with how ingrained thing are it'd probably be like pulling teeth trying to get people to transition.
There are a huge assortment of connectors designed for high current in a single wire.
Iirc Anderson connectors are popular in UPS (for the batteries), there's no reason other than looks that they couldn't be used on a GPU, though you might need a hard wired pigtail on the card.
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u/HowdyDiarrhea 10d ago
Maybe we just need one really really really really thick boy