this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2025
62 points (98.4% liked)

Hardware

1121 readers
395 users here now

All things related to technology hardware, with a focus on computing hardware.

Rules (Click to Expand):

  1. Follow the Lemmy.world Rules - https://mastodon.world/about

  2. Be kind. No bullying, harassment, racism, sexism etc. against other users.

  3. No Spam, illegal content, or NSFW content.

  4. Please stay on topic, adjacent topics (e.g. software) are fine if they are strongly relevant to technology hardware. Another example would be business news for hardware-focused companies.

  5. Please try and post original sources when possible (as opposed to summaries).

  6. If posting an archived version of the article, please include a URL link to the original article in the body of the post.

Some other hardware communities across Lemmy:

Icon by "icon lauk" under CC BY 3.0

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Alphane_Moon
[email protected]
62
RTX 4090 16-pin GPU adapter fights melting with active cooling (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 2 days ago by Alphane_Moon to c/hardware
18 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't get why they couldn't just do more 8-pin connectors. Three is common enough on things like 6900XTs. Four would give you a 600w envelope too.

Then you don't have to redesign the PSU and they're a known quantity. It's not like this lets you make the card meaningfully smaller, heatsimk and all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The 8 pin connectors are very bulky. So a new connector is definitely needed if they are gonna keep increasing the power demands, but this one ain't it.

[–] TBi 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This connector is possibly ok. But really they should have put two on instead of running one at its limits.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I haven't followed the recent failures but the earlier failures were iirc caused by improper .

The connector should be redesigned to make something like that impossible. For example the connector shouldn't click if it's not fully inserted and the sense pins should be shorter as not to deliver current until full insertion.

IIRC it's also pretty damn fragile and slight stress on the connector can start fires.