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Nvidia won, we all lost

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977 points todsacerdoti | 4 comments | 04 Jul 25 21:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.97s | 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. izacus ◴[05 Jul 25 07:39 UTC] No.44470831[source]▶
With 5080 using 300W, talking about 500W is a bit of an exaggeration, isn't it?
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2. lukeschlather ◴[05 Jul 25 18:44 UTC] No.44474656[source]▶
I'm talking about the 5090 which is 575W.
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3. izacus ◴[05 Jul 25 20:02 UTC] No.44475133[source]▶
But why are you talking about it? It's a hugely niche hardware which is a tiny % of nVidia cards out there. It's deliberately outsized and you wouldn't put it in 99% of gaming PCs.

And yet you speak of it like it's a representative model. Do you also use a Hummer EV to measure all EVs?

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4. lukeschlather ◴[05 Jul 25 21:31 UTC] No.44475718{3}[source]▶
I am interested in buying hardware that can run the full DeepSeek R1 locally. I don't think it's a particularly good idea, but I've contemplated an array of 5090s.

If I were interested in using an EV to haul particularly heavy loads, I might be interested in the Hummer EV and have similar questions that might sound ridiculous.