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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion
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Nope, just 5070Ti, the 5070 will follow on 5th March unless that slips. So that means 5060 mid March onwards.
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-...march-2025-release-by-colorfuls-main-supplier
The connector pins will still melt if only 1 or 2 of them is making a connection.
ahh someone said on here 20th of feb few weeks back.Nope, just 5070Ti, the 5070 will follow on 5th March unless that slips. So that means 5060 mid March onwards.
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-...march-2025-release-by-colorfuls-main-supplier
One word of advice around those worried about their cable: These cables are only specced for 30 insertion cycles. If you get paranoid and start to check your connector weekly/monthly (i know many do this since the 4090), you will inadvertently make it more likely to happen. One of the guys on reddit who recently showed a melted connector has since clarified he would check his connector monthly. I do wonder if his connector would've melted if he hadn't used up the insertion cycles.
The last time I checked, that Reddit thread doesn't make it abundantly clear whether the PSU sockets are H++. It would be a useful data-point.
If all of these are from H+ PSUs then that suggests going with H++ may reduce risk (won’t confirm it for sure though, nor does it mean there is nil risk with H++).
If all of these are from H+ PSUs then that suggests going with H++ may reduce risk (won’t confirm it for sure though, nor does it mean there is nil risk with H++).
This is what I mean, when you have like literally 2 failures, it actually seems impressive to me - because who knows what these people are doing. You guys have no idea how bizarrely dumb people can be. Or how weird and petty.
I confess I don't know much about this though. Is there a real mistake being made? like are they using a 600 watt wire to handle 700 watt currents? (lol my dad's an electrician and I'm embarrassed I know so little about electrical stuff)
Are they foregoing some kind of safety thing to
Didn't everyone try to make a big deal out of this last time?
@the guy about the fusebox thing - I dunno for some reason I don't get your angle on that. If people installed their own fuse boxes and wiring, it'd be a mess, nobody would have power, ever. Are you saying everything has fuses, except for these graphics cards? If that's a standard consumer electronics practice and nvidia has ignored it, then I'm sure it'd be easy to demolish them in court, once again, I don't know much about this
I'd love for something to take nvidia down a peg, I greatly dislike the direction the GPU market has gone in
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New 5090 AIB review alert! Gigabyte Gaming OC
Seems to be pretty disappointing in terms of thermals, fan speed and noise. The 4090 Gaming OC was a great card, but i'm not sure the same can be said for the 5090 version.
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Seems to be pretty disappointing in terms of thermals, fan speed and noise. The 4090 Gaming OC was a great card, but i'm not sure the same can be said for the 5090 version.
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming OC Review
The Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming OC is a factory overclocked custom-design variant of NVIDIA's new flagship. It comes with a powerful cooling solution that achieves very low noise levels when the quiet BIOS is activated. Gigabyte's card also has its default power limit increased to 600 W for...
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You don't know much about it but you do have something to say about it. But that's what this place is for I suppose.
Nearly everything has some form of protection, you don't just let raw unstabilised power loose in a sensitive electronic device. And that can take a few forms, not always a fuse.
It'd not be easy to demolish them in court at all, they'd swerve anything that involved 3rd party cables and they'd have the best lawyers in the world.
But Nvidia HAVE dropped the ball. The way the power is dealt with in the 3000 series of cards is FAR better than 4000 and 5000 series.
And they implemented that. Good luck taking them to court.
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They're carrying 600w using six wire pairs (one live, one ground). The best case of 100w a wire is fine, but under some conditions like poor contact on some wires you can end up with 270w plus going through one wire. They're forgetting the circuitry to know and limit how many watts go down each wire pair; the 3090 Ti had this circuitry.
It was bad enough last time, when 4090s drew 400-500w in game. Now with 5090s hitting 600-650w and without anything really having changed, failures look more likely and people are wondering why TF Nvidia were so greedy as to forget that power-controlling circuitry, either on the GPUs themselves or as part of the spec of the 12v-HPRW/2x6 connector on the PSU and/or GPU.
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And this essentially is it, it's a pretty bad oversight.
New 5090 AIB review alert! Gigabyte Gaming OC
Seems to be pretty disappointing in terms of thermals, fan speed and noise. The 4090 Gaming OC was a great card, but i'm not sure the same can be said for the 5090 version.
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming OC Review
The Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming OC is a factory overclocked custom-design variant of NVIDIA's new flagship. It comes with a powerful cooling solution that achieves very low noise levels when the quiet BIOS is activated. Gigabyte's card also has its default power limit increased to 600 W for...
Gigabyte air cooled cards always suck
You pay a premium over FE to get a far larger card that makes more noise and cools worse than FE
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How is it possible for the world's richest company and its army of engineers to miss something basic in their profession like wiring?
Didn't it turn out to be people not plugging it in properly last time?
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Arrogance perhaps? Or definitely?
They didn't miss anything; these electronics are so intricate that if they did miss placing components the thing would likely not even turn on. This is not an unforeseen error; its a strategic decision to cut costs - like the VW DieselGate, we now have Nvidia PowerGate
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Temperature and noise are always leagues better than any FE - the latter is especially a considerable metric with every purchase.
I just read through this and actually the card clocks pretty high as standard and when OC'd, and if you want quiet, then the quiet BIOS is one of the quieter one's available according to their chart. Not overly keen on the whole "putty" thing (rather have a quality paste) but otherwise looks pretty solid to me.New 5090 AIB review alert! Gigabyte Gaming OC
Seems to be pretty disappointing in terms of thermals, fan speed and noise. The 4090 Gaming OC was a great card, but i'm not sure the same can be said for the 5090 version.
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming OC Review
The Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming OC is a factory overclocked custom-design variant of NVIDIA's new flagship. It comes with a powerful cooling solution that achieves very low noise levels when the quiet BIOS is activated. Gigabyte's card also has its default power limit increased to 600 W for...