• lordofthedrones@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    Your understanding is wrong. Nvidia pushed a connector without adequate testing and the connector failed, killing cards.

    Bad adapters are a thing, as they ALWAYS were. An adapter cannot fixed a problematic specification.

    Users are not to blame: badly designed connector is to blame, not the users. There is a reason why the AT connector for PSUs was abandoned: It was a two part connector that could be easily inserted wrong and burn your components.

    P.S. I am an electrical engineer also that turned to IT work, so i understand Igor’s arguments and the mechanics behind the connector.

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      11 months ago

      Nvidia pushed a connector

      NVIDIA? Or the the PCI SIG? Why did nobody intervene?

      Users are not to blame

      Agree, and I don’t blame the users. I just think it is a none-issue in real life (also according to Igors own failure rate numbers).