Maybe it’s time to move on from 12v being the “high power” standard in PCs to something higher. Similar to how cars are slowly shifting away from 12v accessories. 48v would cut the current on the wires and connectors significantly.
TBF, if you ask for power delivery in an unsafe manner, the PSU should say ‘no’…
GPUs shouldn’t be requesting power unsafely, that’s definitely something they should address as well; but the PSU shouldn’t be able/willing to comply either.
We successfully shifted the GPUs responsibility from the 3k-4k€ GPU to the 200€ PSU. Fuck Nvidia.
Why can’t we just use more robust connectors (xt60 for example)? Or higher voltages? Trying to send low voltage, high current through a bunch of tiny connectors and hoping none of them melt seems silly. Is it just because no one wants to challenge the standard?
standards exist for backwards compatibility, it would be pretty annoying to not be able to use a new GPU with my decade old PSU and passive adapters.
