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Nvidia won, we all lost

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977 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 21:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.346s | source
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Nextgrid ◴[04 Jul 25 23:04 UTC] No.44468683[source]▶
I wonder if the 12VHPWR connector is intentionally defective to prevent large-scale use of those consumer cards in server/datacenter contexts?

The failure rate is just barely acceptable in a consumer use-case with a single card, but with multiple cards the probability of failure (which takes down the whole machine, as there's no way to hot-swap the card) makes it unusable.

I can't otherwise see why they'd persevere on that stupid connector when better alternatives exist.

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1. mjevans ◴[04 Jul 25 23:18 UTC] No.44468769[source]▶
Sunk cost fallacy and a burning (literal) desire to have small artistic things. That's probably also the reason the connector was densified so much, and clearly, released with so VERY little tolerance for error human and otherwise.