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[electrosoft]

1 hour ago, Papusan said:

 

 

And many on OC.net spend more money in more expensive quality products than the normy pc users.

 

 

 

 

All I'm saying is the math isn't mathing....and luck is not at play in engineering fault tolerance testing.

 

Plus with the user reports all we have is their subjective takes ("I swear I checked everything right before going to church and feeding the homeless!") usually rife with oversights and human error we do not know or see. All we see is the end product which is a burned cable and/or fused connection. Then people run with it.....

 

If the connector was that flawed, those who routinely push their cards should suffer a much noticeable higher rate of failure yet amongst the enthusiasts on the forums the rate of failure is minuscule if even that.

 

I've long thought this since the 4000 series and it continues to prove itself out over and over. I frequent the various enthusiast forums, enthusiast FB tech message groups, tech focused Discord along with clans and guilds chock full of 4090 and 5090 owners gaming 8-12hrs/day and more waiting for this influx of burned connectors amongst the various types used considering how hard the hardware is being pushed even on non shunted cards running max OC's constantly hitting 600-650w....yet......much ado about nothing.

 

I ran my 4090 OC'd from start to finish. I am doing the same with my 5090 too. One thing I do for my cards since Ampere is I run them max Underclocked when not gaming/benching then Max OC when gaming.

 

Look, it's a cheap part to replace for the cable. I can swap in numerous types or models if I want. That isn't the issue. Zero loyalty to a damn connector cable 🤣 The one and only time I had issues was with the CM adapter cable  I was going to use and it kept black screening and crashing and it turned out to be severely problematic and was a legitimate issue even outside of human error or potential inherent problems. The replacement one they sent me is still sitting sealed in its pouch on my shelf. I am really curious about the Ampinel and am almost 100% I'll be picking one up just out of curiosity.

 

And you're correct, many on OC.net DO spend more money on quality products than normies. That just adds even more weight to my argument.

 

With all that being said, I still wish they had stuck with 8-pin PCIe connectors but I guess with the way power consumption is going, we would end up with cards with 4-5 of them if not more at some point on certain models.

 

Imagine a HOF with 8 8-pin connectors..... 🤣

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Reciever]

Picked up a MSi Gaming GTX 970 to match the one I have and EVGA GTX 760 SLI (Plus bridge) 

 

Just loading up more and more work for my Winter break this year. 

 

Cleaned up the EVGA 980Ti, Sapphire R9 390X, and 2x Galaxy GTX 580's (Accelero Xtreme)

 

Still have Sapphire R9 280X to clean up and GTX 9800 to assemble.

Have an offer sent for a pair of GTX 460's as well. Kind of limiting myself to 2-way SLI/XFire or Dual-GPU single PCB scenarios. It would be fun to do Quad-SLI GTX 9800 but I wouldnt have the space for it all.

[Papusan]

14 hours ago, electrosoft said:

With all that being said, I still wish they had stuck with 8-pin PCIe connectors but I guess with the way power consumption is going, we would end up with cards with 4-5 of them if not more at some point on certain models.

 

Imagine a HOF with 8 8-pin connectors..... 🤣

 

More stupidity on its way. Both Corsair and beQuiet start remove 8-pin PCIe connectors to the bare minimum. Even for the stronger 1500W models. Now with only 2x 8-pin PCIe for powering AMD and Intel GPUs (but only one available for the GPU if your modern MB need one of them). Nice. We may see AMD and Intel going the Nvidia route once next gen cards is out. 

 

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