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Nvidia won, we all lost

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977 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 04 Jul 25 21:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.405s | source
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ryao ◴[04 Jul 25 22:48 UTC] No.44468582[source]▶
> The RTX 50 series are the second generation of NVIDIA cards to use the 12VHPWR connector.

This is wrong. The 50 series uses 12V-2x6, not 12VHPWR. The 30 series was the first to use 12VHPR. The 40 series was the second to use 12VHPWR and first to use 12V-2x6. The 50 series was the second to use 12V-2x6. The female connectors are what changed in 12V-2x6. The male connectors are identical between 12V-2x6 and 12VHPWR.

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ohdeargodno ◴[04 Jul 25 22:54 UTC] No.44468620[source]▶
Nitpicking it doesn't change the fact that the 12v2x6 connector _also_ burns down.
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ryao ◴[04 Jul 25 22:59 UTC] No.44468647[source]▶
The guy accuses Nvidia of not doing anything about that problem, but ignored that they did with the 12V-2x6 connector, which as far as I can tell, has had far fewer issues.
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1. MindSpunk ◴[05 Jul 25 01:51 UTC] No.44469507[source]▶
The 50 series connectors burned up too. The issue was not fixed.
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2. ryao ◴[05 Jul 25 02:15 UTC] No.44469604[source]▶
It seems incredibly wrong to assume that there was only 1 issue with 12WHPWR. 12V-2x6 was an improvement that eliminated some potential issues, not all of them. If you want to eliminate all of them, replace the 12 current carrying wires with 2 large gauge wires. Then the wires cannot become unbalanced. Of course, the connector would need to split the two into 12 very short wires to be compatible, but those would be recombined on the GPU’s PCB into a single wire.