emperorsteele t1_iu00ly6 wrote on October 27, 2022 at 3:31 PM

I kinda hate this article.

"Celebrities on youtube are fear-mongering! There's nothing wrong with the connectors!"

"Except the connectors are cheap and break easily. But that's not nvidia's fault!"

They're doing some whack-ass mental gymnastics there.

lionhart280 t1_iu0s9r0 wrote on October 27, 2022 at 6:30 PM

You didnt really read then.

The article is effectively stating that the 12VHPWR connector standard is perfectly fine and plenty robust to handle its job, in general, and that people are fearmongering over the connecter standard being bad, when it is very much plenty fine.

NVIDIA however produced an extremely cheap and shitty adapter for it they shipped with their cards, and its the adapter that is failing, because they made it very cheaply and didnt not comply to 12VHPWR standards.

It is 100% NVIDIA's fault though, Im not sure what makes you think the article said anything opposite of that.

emperorsteele t1_iu19hdr wrote on October 27, 2022 at 8:21 PM

I'll be honest, I read it twice, because I thought I was missing something, but I still didn't understand why the article flip-flopped between the plug not having an issue, and the plug being broken.

It's either broken or isn't.

But since you pointed out the difference between standard and adapter, that makes a bit more sense. Thanks!

mgzkk1210 t1_iu09ymd wrote on October 27, 2022 at 4:32 PM

Sorry but putting quotation marks over random sentences doesn't help with bad reading comprehension.

COMPUTER1313 OP t1_iu0il2z wrote on October 27, 2022 at 5:28 PM

> "Except the connectors are cheap and break easily. But that's not nvidia's fault!"

Except if you read the article or looked for my TLDR comment, you would see that the whole cable melting drama is purely due to Nvidia's poor connector design or they had accepted low quality cables from a manufacturer. Meanwhile PSU manufacturers' and other 3rd party cables don't have the same problem.