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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: 0.45s | source
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rkagerer ◴[05 Jul 25 01:22 UTC] No.44469388[source]▶
I am a volunteer firefighter and hold a degree in electrical engineering. The shenanigans with their shunt resistors, and ensuing melting cables, is in my view criminal. Any engineer worth their salt would recognize pushing 600W through a bunch of small cables with no contingency if some of them have failed is just asking for trouble. These assholes are going to set someone's house on fire.

I hope they get hit with a class action lawsuit and are forced to recall and properly fix these products before anyone dies as a result of their shoddy engineering.

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lukeschlather ◴[05 Jul 25 02:50 UTC] No.44469778[source]▶
Also, like, I kind of want to play with these things, but also I'm not sure I want a computer that uses 500W+ in my house, let alone just a GPU.

I might actually be happy to buy one of these things, at the inflated price, and run it at half voltage or something... but I can't tell if that is going to fix these concerns or they're just bad cards.

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1. wasabinator ◴[05 Jul 25 03:30 UTC] No.44469918[source]▶
It's not the voltage, it's the current you'd want to halve. The wire gauge required to carry power is dependent on the current load. It's why when i first saw these new connectors and the loads they were being tasked with it was a wtf moment for me. Better to just avoid them in the first place though.
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2. dietr1ch ◴[05 Jul 25 03:59 UTC] No.44470000[source]▶
It's crazy, you don't even need to know about electricity after you see a thermal camera on them operating at full load. I'm surprised they can be sold to the general public, the reports of cables melting plus the high temps should be enough to force a recall.