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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - (PRE)ORDER DISCUSSION **NO COMPETITOR HINTING**

Just in case this has been missed - this isn't the only source, I've seen at least one other news where another engineer talked about electrical design of 4k and 5k series (focusing on 4090 and 5090) and the general consensus is that just to decrease the size of the 5090 FE board NVIDIA simplified current balance circuitry and got rid of a bunch of basic safeguards, which means VRM will pull high power (even whole 600W) just through one cable if it has the lowest resistance (for whatever reason, even just small manufacturing differences between wires). No wonder they can overheat and melt, and it has little to do with the plug or cables themselves, it's full blame on NVIDIA here! 3090 had very different electrical design with max 200W per pair of cables, 4090 had it simplified and could already end up with all power through one cable, 5090 has even worse design.

What's more, 5090 doesn't have any safeguards anymore to protect PCIe connector, so if something goes wrong on the card itself the whole power could be dumped back into the PCIe connector and fry the rest of the PC. This type of design in basic electrical school would be marked as F, it's really unsafe to use and bad! I don't believe any engineer at NVIDIA wanted to do it, it feels like they were under management pressure just to make smaller PCB as "Nothing will happen, who cares!".

In other words, it might be best to really just sit and wait instead of chasing a card that's an actual fire hazard by bad design.
 
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These prices are laughable. £1500 for an xx70 ti level card. Who's buying this nonsense, figuratively and literally?
 
well theres definitely a GPU shortage worldwide, worse than the mining period, 5080 single digits in stock for super high prices, 5090 no where to be seen, even 7900XTX sold out and nowhere to be seen, theres somthing going on thats causing this shortage, unless mining is back?
 
hobib_ali said:
well theres definitely a GPU shortage worldwide, worse than the mining period, 5080 single digits in stock for super high prices, 5090 no where to be seen, even 7900XTX sold out and nowhere to be seen, theres somthing going on thats causing this shortage, unless mining is back?
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What don't people understand about the factories being shut for Chinese New year ????
 
p3eps said:
I bought it directly from Corsair a few weeks ago, so I’d imagine it’s the newer version… or hope so anyway!
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I got mine a few weeks ago too, but not direct from Corsair. It shows "ATX 3.1" on the front, top right corner, says Copyright 2024 in the small print and shows the included 12VHPWR cable in the contents picture on the box.
I guess you could always open the box to check too lol (I'm waiting until my 5090 arrives).
 
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Jasseh said:
I got mine a few weeks ago too, but not direct from Corsair. It shows "ATX 3.1" on the front, top right corner, says Copyright 2024 in the small print and shows the included 12VHPWR cable in the contents picture on the box.
I guess you could always open the box to check too lol (I'm waiting until my 5090 arrives).
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I’ll have a look at my box. The PSU is in the PC, but the box is in the loft with all the spare cables.
 
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