Article is a summary of der8auer’s video. Measurements show 22A/260 watts – nearly half of the card’s power draw – going through a single wire heating it up to 150 °C in an open-air test bench.
Article is a summary of der8auer’s video. Measurements show 22A/260 watts – nearly half of the card’s power draw – going through a single wire heating it up to 150 °C in an open-air test bench.
Why? Products fail all the time. Consumers who spend entire paychecks and stand in lines for hours to buy the newest Product Don’t have the right to complain that the product hasn’t been vetted yet. Spend your money on something important, not some trendy new gadget for your gaming PC. You can wait one year on the product will be tested and vetted, or it will have been removed from shelves because it was faulty to begin with, and the price will have come down. Your assertion that “two is too many” suggests that these consumers should be protected from their own poor spending decisions and is wrong to do so.
Because Roman showed very clearly in the video the issue isn’t the device or the user, it’s inherit in the design. Pushing that much current through those small cables is a really bad idea. It’s needed to make everything smaller, but it has way too many failure cases. Even a small imbalance can cascade into dumping all that energy in one little cable, causing the plastic to melt and burn.
I’m used to consumer protection (laws) … the kind that, you know, protects you from spontaneous fires, infinitely accelerating and exploding cars or toxic ingredients, especially if those products are supposed to be officially premium products, not bypassing those laws by importing directly from china under false names and Cina Export instead of CE. And in this case, that obviously failed, to a worrying degree.
Consumers should be protected from literal fire hazards.