this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
300 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

67338 readers
4602 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
300
Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
48 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

At this point, it’s unclear whether the issues are one-offs or systemic.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Every picture I've seen has been an outside pin. So my theory is it's the cable getting tugged for cable management and even though it's clipped in, it's not making as good of contact.

That or just a bad cable design. I've bought a few cables from cablemod and I'm not happy with the wiring they used. Their website says "Crafted with 16AWG wiring" but they also brag about the flexibility of their cables so I assume they're using stranded wires instead of a solid core so you lose a decent chunk of ampacity (and heat sinking).