News Nvidia's RTX 5090 power cables may be doomed to burn

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Just because planes can technically take off with half of their engines disabled doesn't mean they should since that leaves no reserve power in case of bird strike or other engine failure during take-off.

Just because a good HPWR cable should be fine (stay within thermal specs) with half as many wires/pins doesn't mean you should intentionally run it that way either since that leaves no room for externalities.

Just because on paper the cable can handle the current doesn't mean that they should not monitor the current per pin for safety and product protection🙄

 

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Just because on paper the cable can handle the current doesn't mean that they should not monitor the current per pin for safety and product protection🙄

And the pointless argument circle goes around yet again. There is no actual safety issue, good cables are balancing current perfectly fine, additional "product protection" is an unnecessary expense.

I am 100% confident that Nvidia did the math on how much out-of-pocket cost they may have to cover for melted connectors and concluded they were perfectly fine with it. They have a fiduciary duty to optimize value for the shareholders and wouldn't melt connectors if the projected frequency and costs wiped out the savings.

 

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And the pointless argument circle goes around yet again. There is no actual safety issue, good cables are balancing current perfectly fine, additional "product protection" is an unnecessary expense.

I am 100% confident that Nvidia did the math on how much out-of-pocket cost they may have to cover for melted connectors and concluded they were perfectly fine with it. They have a fiduciary duty to optimize value for the shareholders and wouldn't melt connectors if the projected frequency and costs wiped out the savings.

Of course they did the calculation, they calculated that if they put the balancing circuit or protection in they will have a lot of "the card is not operating properly" bad press coz the card is stopping to pull full power due to the lack of overhead and poor design of the 12V 2X6, so they ditched it and shove it to user error if anything happens, blind fans will just blame the user or cable or PSU or whatever but not Nvidia, and here you go.

Your arguement is ciruling around the faith in Nvidia team, which, Boeing have taught us that being the trillion dollar company, even if life in hand they still do the same stupid thing to maximize the stock price/profit.

When they can easily add extra $50 to cover the cost of the protection circuit and ppl will still buy those, that arguement they don't need it but need profit is making zero sense. Plus that doesn't make them a responsible company anyway.