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Hassam Nasir Social Links Navigation Contributing Writer Hassam Nasir is a die-hard hardware enthusiast with years of experience as a tech editor and writer, focusing on detailed CPU comparisons and general hardware news. When he’s not working, you’ll find him bending tubes for his ever-evolving custom water-loop gaming rig or benchmarking the latest CPUs and GPUs just for fun.
usertests It's testing the limits of the safety margin by actually using all of the silicon you paid for (both shader and tensor cores). Reply
QuarterSwede I fail to understand how these higher wattage cards or power supplies don’t have sensors to detect their draw and throttle to keep it below the safety max of their pack in cables. We’ve had something as simple as breakers in electrical for how long now? This is a solved problem. GPU makers need to get it together! Reply
-Fran- QuarterSwede said: I fail to understand how these higher wattage cards or power supplies don’t have sensors to detect their draw and throttle to keep it below the safety max of their pack in cables. We’ve had something as simple as breakers in electrical for how long now? This is a solved problem. GPU makers need to get it together! Because if the spec was written in a sensible way, you would not need the extra circuitry for a VERY SIMPLE electrical problem which has been solved for nearly a century by now. This is nVidia's pure and sole ego. Regards. Reply
YSCCC The more of these incidents are popping up, especially with basically ALL techtubers including De8auer who should be one of the best guys with knowledge to keep things plugged correctly still have their share of burnt connectors, the conclusion is very simple that the connector is a massive F up. And somehow I am very glad that I can opt for the 9070XT or a 5070Ti at same price and still went the dual 8 pin 9070XT.. Reply
hotaru251 QuarterSwede said: how these higher wattage cards or power supplies don’t have sensors to detect their draw and throttle to keep it below the safety max of their pack in cables. nvidia DID….they removed em from 40 and 50 series. Reply
aberkae Online guides also say to put power management to maximize performance. New mod just dropped allowing for secondary gpu if successful can potentially mitigate pressure on the primary card on running neural network rendering. yoEsuZyltFc View: https://youtu.be/yoEsuZyltFc?is=VhKUC6hq8hGKwpsM Reply
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