News Corsair confirms the slight wiggle room in its 16-pin connectors for Nvidia GPUs is by design

[Admin]

Corsair says the added play improves terminal alignment and reduces wear.

Corsair confirms the slight wiggle room in its 16-pin connectors for Nvidia GPUs is by design : Read more

 

[alceryes]

🎵 Tale as old as time. 🎶

"It's not a flaw. It's a feature!"

 

[Notton]

0.44mm average seems like quite a lot of play when the pins are 0.64mm thick.

It's the Swiss cheese model.

Dumb spec to begin with, PCI-SIG.
Dumb power rail design, Nvidia.
Poor manufacturing tolerances, Corsair.

 

[alceryes]

0.44mm average seems like quite a lot of play when the pins are 0.64mm thick.

It's the Swiss cheese model.

Dumb spec to begin with, PCI-SIG.
Dumb power rail design, Nvidia.
Poor manufacturing tolerances, Corsair.

Agreed, however...
Remember, it was NVIDIA that was trialing the 12VHPWR before it even became a spec. The 3080 and higher cards had the 12VHPWR. NVIDIA is also part of PCI-SIG (the biggest partner, for sure). NVIDIA brought this would-be spec to PCI-SIG and threw money at it to get certified.

The result -

https://imgur.com/c4jt321

View: https://imgur.com/c4jt321