News New RTX 4090 Cards Can Access Up to 1200W of Power

[Unolocogringo]

Most homes in the US ,built since the 80's have 20 amp circuits with 15amp receptacles/outlets run with 12 gauge wire.. With a maximum 6 outlets or 12 devices per circuit. Outlets count as 2 devices..
20amp receptacles are available and are limited to one per 20 amp circuit.
Then we have lighting circuits that are run with 14 gauge wire/15amp breakers, again a maximum of 12 devices. A ceiling fan with light counts as 2 devices .
This is part of the National electrical code.
But many urban areas do not have inspectors/code enforcement personnel so anything is possible.

 

[Chung Leong]

If my math is correct, it'd take four Big Macs to power this thing for one hour.

 

[Deleted member 431422]

Aluminum wiring comes with a much higher risk of fire. IIRC, it's because it heats up more than copper. I'm sure that it's less flexible and prone to cracking too. My house has aluminum 240V wiring, but someone disconnected it at both ends before I bought the house. At some point, I need to run it again for an electric car charger, but that'll need to go to 40A+.

But you don't hook up y our PC to 240V, you hook it up to 120V (or 115V), so halve what you calculated.

I live in Poland. It's 240V in the mains, so I do connect everything to 240V 🙂. We don't have 120V.

Lets focus the discussion on this card.

I don't really know the new flagships. is "Hall of Fame" the equivalent of the "lightning" series from MSI ?
I was the happy owner of 2x 290x Lightning in crossfire, watercooled and all. Beasts !

We're very much on topic. If you have over 50 year old electric wiring made of aluminium (which becomes brittle with time) you should really reconsider buying the high end electronics. I didn't think of it as relevant until I read this thread.

 

[brandonjclark]

Nvidia should just integrate the PSU into the GPU, that would remove need for the cables and would reduce risk of a poor PSU being asked to run it.

I doubt many people know this but auxillary power supplies used to be a thing. You could buy them (maybe still can?) as 5.25 drive bay devices. I actually ran one on an older system of mine as the dedicated GPU power supply for awhile.

 

[waltc3]

One requirement I don't see listed here is that the card may only be purchased by people with very low IQs who have more money than brains, obviously...

 

[dalauder]

Fire prone connectors with access to 666W of power consumption... They are just asking for it...

Powercolor should release a "Red Devil" version of it if it's really 666W.

 

[dalauder]

I live in Poland. It's 240V in the mains, so I do connect everything to 240V 🙂. We don't have 120V.


We're very much on topic. If you have over 50 year old electric wiring made of aluminium (which becomes brittle with time) you should really reconsider buying the high end electronics. I didn't think of it as relevant until I read this thread.

Ahh, I guess that's why PSUs say something like "110-240V" on a lot of them.

 

[dalauder]

I doubt many people know this but auxillary power supplies used to be a thing. You could buy them (maybe still can?) as 5.25 drive bay devices. I actually ran one on an older system of mine as the dedicated GPU power supply for awhile.

The older folks here do. I'd really hoped that to be a thing of the past.

A couple years ago, efficiency used to be a big focus and CPU & GPU manufacturers talked about "performance per Watt". I guess that ended.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

What has also ended is me caring about all this nonsense that I have seen coming forever now.

this is why I abandon PCs and went to console for my gaming and even that is getting too expensive so I guess I’m just gonna have to quit everything when they price us out of the market

 

[coromonadalix]

You'll need a powerplant for the 5xxx futur series ???

Insane and absurd. loll yes for the welding cables 200-500 amps ones lolll

 

[TheOtherOne]

Nvidia should just integrate the PSU into the GPU, that would remove need for the cables and would reduce risk of a poor PSU being asked to run it.

Isn't that technically already available in External GPU format?

And now I am just thinking if someone can make an extension cable type "card" that you can slide in to fit inside the PCIE slot (to overcome any limitations of USB-C / Thunderbolt bandwidth) and have your GPUs outside of the case. Much easier on cooling and separate power source as well, not to mention don't have to worry about ever increasing GPU size and not enough room inside the cases! 🤔