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Only one card has a gem sticking out its rear end. The other AIBs have already lost.
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I would imagine because they haven't implemented it correctly with the use of onboard fuses and resistors.
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Because it's a bad design and Nvidia are smart enough to know this, They hire some of the worlds most intelligent people, More than 1 person highly likely said it was a bad idea.
Nvidia could've chosen to go with 3 x 8 pin connectors and along with the PCI-e slot the 4090, And now 5090, Would still have access to 520+ watts, That's still a ludicrous amount for a single GPU.
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The AIB partners should be doing more of this to make cable management better and re-siting the port so that it is in the best place. The Nitro card looks good for this.
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Remember this is AMD, AMD will AMD the bed and there'll be AMD everywhere.
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750 watts for the XT according to AMD's page.
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How so?
Fair enough, I just meant I feel like they're only using it because Nvidia is. If there's no power requirement to do so, is there another reason? Genuinely asking
What case do you have ?
I suppose when they both used pcie 6 or 8 pin cables they were also "copying" each other? ...
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Reducing PCB space is likely 1 of the reasons.
In the case of sapphire it seems to have been done to hide the power cables, which would be harder to do with conventional connectors.
If that's the minimum what would people recommend these days if i want to future proof?
Good points, I was under the impression it was mostly for power requirements
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I think some AIB have recommended 900w for their variants.
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I'd go for a 1000w unit, Something from Seasonic would be good.
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They were talking about the RX9070.
Just buy an Nvidia card mateI obviously didn't describe my concerns very well, I'm not bothered in the slightest by being able to see a bit of cable. My concern was having to deal with 3 x 8-pin connectors. In the example picture it's fine, but what if your case doesn't have a gap to pass through right at the exit point? Also in my experience of cable management that section is usually one of the busier points behind the motherboard tray to suddenly add 3 x 8-pin connectors to.
Makes you wonder why everyone has a go at Nvidia for any issues with it.
I think it's fine if AMD do it.
But yes it does seem to go against the advice we got with these connectors. I'd say you'd think Sapphire would've tested it, but then you'd have thought Nvidia and it's board partners also did some testing but it didn't prevent issues with the connector.
