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Article is a summary of der8auer's video. Measurements show 22A/260 watts – nearly half of the card's power draw – going through a single wire heating it up to 150 °C in an open-air test bench.

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[-] Gork@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

Time for a large busbar connecting the power supply, motherboard, and graphics card?

[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There wasn't even anything wrong with the minifit jr 8 pin pcie connectors, the official spec of 150W massively derated. If Nvidia really wanted to cap the number of plugs and not change any specs then the 8 pin EPS connectors are rated at 288W.

[-] N0VERCLOCKER@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

If they did that then they likely would end up with melted 8 pin connectors as that derating is a protection against one pin being overused due to small expected differences in resistance on each pin

[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I'm not saying to ignore the derating, I'm saying use EPS connectors at their derated 288W.

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