Never forget what they took from you.
>lets run like 800 watts or something retarded through 12 thin pins vs 3x8 thicc pins12vhpwr was either some attempt to make installs easier, or planned obsolescence when the card inevitably cooks itselfi think nvidia got really pissy with board design at some point, its why evga had such a falling out
>>109037781Just buy AMD GPUs, the 9070 XT sitll got those.
>>109037781Many AMD Radeon RX 9000 cards still use traditional 8-pin connectors.
5060Ti enters the chat, most still on 8-pin
I miss playing the latest games on GPUs that didn't need the power of a small oven and cost less than hundred bucks.
>>109038218I miss playing the latest games that didn't look like oil was splattered on the screen filled with ghosting.
>>109037877do pins even matter if everything ends up going through a strand of copper foil?
They didn't force the 12vhpwr connector on server cards lol.
>>109040343And that fact alone was all you needed to know (assuming you have at least a double digit IQ) to avoid that bullshit like the plague long before the meltdowns with consumer GPUs ever happened.
>>109038234You would have hated the blurry grey and blurry brown eras then zoom zoom.
>>109040132The problem is never the copper on the PCB in and of itself. The problem isn't with the pins directly either. When you have multiple pins it's inevitable that you will not get exactly the same contact resistance on all of them, that's just how it works in the real world.The problem is that all these pins are then connected together on the card. Given that the power level can be very high (600W on a stock 5090), any imbalance in resistance on the contact points will result in potentially significant power dissipation (heat) on the pins with bad connections. If the imbalance is too bad, the contact heats up until it melts the surrounding plastic. This didn't used to be a problem because the pins on multiple old PCIe power connectors WERE NOT all connected together.For example, different plugs would go directly to different VRM phases, then the card's power control would attempt to keep load even across its VRMs, which in turn kept load relatively even on the 12V connectors themselves. This prevents insane current differences per-pin and prevented potential meltdown. Now on the new connectors and new cards, all pins are connected together, all VRMs hook up to the "single" 12V supply rail and even though the load on the VRMs is still going to be kept even, this does not correlate at all to the load on individual pins on the connector. Hence once again, potential meltdown.So the core problem here isn't with the pins, or even with the connector (though it is poorly chosen, it has little headroom), the problem is that these cards do not do any current load balancing on the pins at all. If the card kept current draw on the pins pretty even then even the new connector wouldn't melt down.
>>109040373retard larper
The issue with the 12VHPWR is that it's pins are too thin, can easily not make contact, there's zero thermal headroom, and the cards lack pin balancing. Plus it's a complete clusterfuck of a standard, with ATX 3.1 having looser standards than ATX 3.0 and the plug itself having multiple revisions.No amount of 3rd party cables will fix it, these connectors will continue to burn, and Nvidia will never admit that they fucked up by forcing all board partners to use that shit without any load balancing.
>>109040373Go scroll your ai slopped reels, you retarded roleplaying cigan.
>>109040373I'm pissed that those days are returning.What's wrong with having interesting colour in a game?Even the original fallout games didn't look that bad.
>>109040603i remember when gpus were oriented towards gamers where it was like "more connectors hell yeah, this thing is gonna rip" now it just seems like this shit is for easy installs
>>109040373The grey and brown king GoW had a top-tier graphical engine, the franchise peaked at 3 (at UE3).>>109040739FO4 looks so much worse than Vegas.
