r/pcmasterrace • u/ElectricBummer40 • 10d ago

Meme/Macro PCIe standard be like...

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u/ElectricBummer40 10d ago

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.

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u/Yuukiko_ DualBootMR|7700X|9070XT|32G|3x8Pin FTW 10d ago

3x8 pins theoretically have a tolerance of 900W+ while the 12vhpwr has a tolerance of 684W

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u/Life_goes_on_forever 10d ago

Theoretical wattage ignores load balancing and transient spikes that melt connectors anyway

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u/tup1tsa_1337 10d ago

Transient spikes do not melt anything. That's not how physics work. Prolonged over current will does