“Inside an Alienware Aurora”
Well, unless they’ve changed, Alienware was kinda famous for basically making a sealed box with a stock CPU fan and crossing their fingers as the machine ran 100C at all times. I don’t know if that could lead to fire instead of just failure, though.
Why are we not holding Nvidia accountable for putting fire starters in millions of homes?
Oh right, there are no adults left in the room anymore.
We are the adults in the room…
They would have been so much better off using a 2 wire power connection like they use for car subs than this. Just tighten down the wires.
Nv:“Oh we made a connector that can peak at 600w” Everyone: “what about any safety leeway?” Nv:“What’s that? Oh, AI Didn’t say we needed that”
It’s not really the wattage that’s an issue.
If it ran at 600 volts, it would only be 1 amp.But at 12v, it’s 50 amps of current.
Which is a lot.
And it’s not massively peaky/bursty, so it needs to withstand that constantly.
Pretty sure something like 10-15mm² cross section of copper is needed for that, which is a thick cable.But, this is also a problem that has been solved elsewhere. For whatever reason, manufacturers have settled in a terrible solution.
For whatever reason, manufacturers have settled in a terrible solution.
As I understand it, not “manufacturers,” Nvidia specifically. They designed the connector then basically forced PSU makers to follow because they’re 90% of the market.
Kind of a feature these days. Shit amp distribution. They just cook a pin and woof! Plenty of tests showing it and plenty of dead 5090s every other day.
Not a smart card to buy unless you triple check connections and aren’t gonna touch it. But even then, too risky for me. Especially at the ludicrous price.
We didn’t start the GPU fire!
Urgh and I’m sitting here downltairs grilling my RTX3060 upstairs via ssh …
If it calms you, I think it’d be hard to start a fire with a 3060 even if you wanted to.
Wow, a burning card not because of 12vhpwr‽
