Testing Shows Recent NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 FE Cable Meltdown May Be Due to Uneven Power Distribution

Grimlakin said:
And with the increased cost in materials there is little chance of that happening. I mean lets look at it this way.

"America is our greatest consumer by a fair margin but these increased costs are going to make American Made products in our category cost competitive."

"so lets move our production to the US?"

"well we would have to basically charge the same increased costs, but incur them ourselves, rather than the tarrif's creating a consumer increase in cost"

"What do you mean?"

"Tarriff's by design make imported goods cost competitive with locally made goods of the same type."

"So who makes these devices/cards in the US?"

"That's just it... nobody does."

"So we would incur the greater cost to have American production of our goods, to only sell them at the same increased cost to the consumer but we would have to charge those costs rather than the government, not to mention when the next leadership comes in the chance of them removing the Tariff's making our investment and costs for labor ultimately a net loss?"

"Well when you put it that way... let the American's pay more... Not like they have local vendors making 5090 cards anyway, and they still have all the increased materials and costs around actually hiring American's to produce the goods."
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Best description ive seen yet
 
Uvilla said:
Really? I mean I wouldnt buy from scalpers even if I was flush... But even if one is loaded, just how stupid would a person be.
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A lot of folks spending their parents money, or who never had to really work for it, throw their cash down in rediculous places. And we have way to many entitled folks that fit that description.
 
Comments in Reddit for the above are pretty hilarious, also funny how the OP deleted once folks started asking why such crap adapters got used.
 
Why the hell would you put so many lines if you arent balancing that crap. Just how stupid is this? Incredible.
 
Uvilla said:
Why the hell would you put so many lines if you arent balancing that crap. Just how stupid is this? Incredible.
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Because electricity naturally follows the path of least resistance. And loading more power on a line increases resistance naturally, Sooo power would kind of 'balance' itself... as long as the cable, ports, connections, and everything else are all correct.
 
Uvilla said:
Nvidia: we get and 80billion transistor processor right, but screw up a 600w connector, cause reasons.
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I mean, hairdryers and coffee pots and toasters have been getting 600W connectors right for decades now...
 
Uvilla said:
Nvidia: we get and 80billion transistor processor right, but screw up a 600w connector, cause reasons.
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The keep shrinking the transistors so their logic says that the power connectors should follow suit I guess.
 
Denpepe said:
The keep shrinking the transistors so their logic says that the power connectors should follow suit I guess.
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Same issue that IBM ran into in the consumer market before they sold their consumer hard drive business off. They made Hard Drives to Spec with little tolerance for variation. And that spawned a run of 'deathstar' drives in the 90's that trashed their rep in the consumer market.
 
Grimlakin said:
Same issue that IBM ran into in the consumer market before they sold their consumer hard drive business off. They made Hard Drives to Spec with little tolerance for variation. And that spawned a run of 'deathstar' drives in the 90's that trashed their rep in the consumer market.
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I remember that - they literally didn't design their drives to be 'turned on and turned off repeatedly', they expected them to just be left on forever, in which case they didn't crumble
 
Grimlakin said:
Same issue that IBM ran into in the consumer market before they sold their consumer hard drive business off. They made Hard Drives to Spec with little tolerance for variation. And that spawned a run of 'deathstar' drives in the 90's that trashed their rep in the consumer market.
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Yup, the old Deskstar drives. As said they were fine if you never turned them off. lol
 
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