Even MSI’s special yellow power plug couldn’t stop this Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 cable from melting
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A new yellow and black MSI 12VHPWR cable designed to prevent it from being incorrectly inserted appears to have burned out in pictures.

Again, coloring isn’t going to save a fundamentally flawed standard.

  • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nzEnglish
    10·
    10 days ago

    Sounds like they need to move to either ZIF connectors or 48V power; this kind of power over high pin counts isn’t really practical.

    There’s a reason electrical codes don’t usually let you use parallel conductors below about 4AWG/60A per conductor.

    • CanadianCorhen@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      10 days ago

      Definitly feels like we need to increase the voltage. Stepdown transformers are extremely efficient, and could be card side.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        62·
        10 days ago

        So now your GPU is going to have a separate power cable from the wall? Or are we going to have GPUs with a PC attached?

        • CanadianCorhen@lemmy.caEnglish
          51·
          10 days ago

          not sure what you mean.

          The power supply would just provide an additional voltage, they currently provide 3.3V, 5V and 12V, they could also provide 48v too.

          • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
            54·
            10 days ago

            I’m joking. If we’re going to add new power cables and a PSU to the card itself, it feels like the rest of the PC becomes an accessory to the GPU.