WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.040 Let's begin with a story. Once upon a time, NVIDIA sunk a ton of time, money, and industry goodwill into adopting 00:00:08.040 --> 00:00:14.040 not one, but three new variants of GPU power connectors over their last three generations 00:00:14.040 --> 00:00:17.240 of GPUs. Why so many changes? 00:00:17.240 --> 00:00:23.520 Well, as we saw with the RTX 4090, when you adopt a brand new standard like 12V high 00:00:23.520 --> 00:00:30.360 power and slam 37 amps through it, sometimes things get a little... melty. 00:00:30.360 --> 00:00:40.400 That's why the RTX 5090 was upgraded to a new and improved 12V 2x6 connector that... 00:00:40.400 --> 00:00:48.480 What the heck, NVIDIA? People are paying thousands of dollars for these cards and they're still melting? 00:00:48.480 --> 00:00:52.680 Why is this happening? Actually, you know what, no, it doesn't matter right now. 00:00:52.680 --> 00:01:05.520 What matters is that Linus Electrical Engineering Tips is here to fix it for you. 00:01:05.520 --> 00:01:13.560 All I need is a couple of these RC car battery connectors, a sacrificial RTX 5090, and a message 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:19.720 from our sponsor. To give ourselves our best shot at success, I've brought in some help from our fabrication 00:01:19.720 --> 00:01:25.080 team and from the lab. Let's talk through the plan. 00:01:25.080 --> 00:01:29.440 SuperWisk says why not just have a connector with two giant spades if it's going to be 00:01:29.440 --> 00:01:34.640 that way on the inside? J5 says the XT60 connector can do 30 amps at 500 volts. 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:37.920 Yeah, why don't we just use that? That was a joke! 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:46.480 Well, you should've said slash s. Great! In a nutshell then, we're going to be removing NVIDIA's 12V 2x6 power connector and we're 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:54.640 going to be replacing it with a commodity XT series power connector, specifically the XT120. 00:01:54.640 --> 00:02:00.600 On the WAN Show, I had actually proposed using a smaller XT60 or XT90, but as I learned 00:02:00.600 --> 00:02:08.040 from talking to Lucas, those amp rating numbers are actually instantaneous rather than continuous. 00:02:08.040 --> 00:02:14.360 As we've seen, the 5090 can very much draw its 50 amps in a continuous manner. 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:18.920 Which is why we need to make sure that whatever we're doing actually makes the situation better 00:02:18.920 --> 00:02:22.120 rather than being another inadequate fix. 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:25.240 And as I learned already, I can't just trust this number on the side of the connector, 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:29.480 so is this good enough? Yep, 60 amp continuous or 120 instantaneous. 00:02:29.480 --> 00:02:34.120 Okay, so total of 720 watts. 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:37.960 But that's not even the part that's most important to me though. 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:44.680 What I like about this is it has a really robust feeling, mating feel. 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:49.400 Like once that thing's in there, it's not going to get bumped by your side panel and 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:53.720 just wreck the whole thing, you know, like that's on there. 00:02:53.720 --> 00:02:59.000 Certainly more confidence inspiring than this. Even sounds cheaper. 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:03.480 Now the question is, how are we going to attach this to this? 00:03:03.480 --> 00:03:07.200 Anyone torn one of these down yet? No, but we did chuck it in the CT scanner though. 00:03:07.320 --> 00:03:13.000 Excellent. That is not only a good way for us to do a feasibility analysis, but also a way for us 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:19.960 to see the underlying design issue that seems to be causing the stock connector to overheat. 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:27.040 If you look right here, while there are 12 pins, okay, 6 for 12 volt and 6 for ground, 00:03:27.040 --> 00:03:30.080 they don't actually connect to the board separately. 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:35.520 They all go into this one strip of metal and connect to the board at a single point. 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:42.880 That means that the card has no way of knowing if one or more of the pins has a poor connection, 00:03:42.880 --> 00:03:50.120 which will force the others to pick up the slack. To demonstrate why this is such a problem, their power even went as far as to cut some 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:55.480 of the wires on his power supply, which obviously caused the remaining ones to heat up. 00:03:55.480 --> 00:03:59.120 Let's take it apart, shall we? This is the easy part. 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:01.120 They trust me to do this part. 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:07.120 Oh, look at that. So many more screws. And of course, it's a different head size, because if I wouldn't it be. 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:11.320 Oh, that comes off next. Oh, look at that. 00:04:11.320 --> 00:04:13.320 Look at her go. 00:04:15.320 --> 00:04:18.920 Wow. We might not even need to go that deep. 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:21.920 Feasibly. See, right there. 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:27.720 There it is. The little blades. Feasibly, we could attach our friggin wire to that right now. 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:30.920 It's just that the clearances might be a little tough. 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:34.920 Before we go too far though, I need to make one thing clear. 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:38.720 NVIDIA didn't design these problematic connectors. 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:44.220 12 volt high power, which was found on the 4090, was adopted as part of the ATX 3.0 00:04:44.220 --> 00:04:52.220 spec back in early 2022. And the replacement 12 volt 2 by 6 connector, the one that shows up on the 5090, is part 00:04:52.220 --> 00:04:59.420 of ATX 3.1. It looks just like the old one, but it actually tweaks the length of the prongs in an attempt 00:04:59.420 --> 00:05:06.120 to prevent power from flowing through an improperly inserted cable, a mitigation that clearly 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:14.620 isn't working. So if NVIDIA didn't invent these connectors, then why are they taking so much heat over 00:05:14.620 --> 00:05:20.180 them? Well, it's because they're the only GPU brand that's going all in on them. 00:05:20.180 --> 00:05:24.020 Not only were they so excited about these new connectors that they raced ahead of the 00:05:24.020 --> 00:05:28.860 rest of the class using a proprietary version on the 30 series before the spec was even 00:05:28.860 --> 00:05:33.620 published, but they have also forced their board partners to go along with their shenanigans 00:05:33.620 --> 00:05:38.940 instead of allowing them to use old school 8 pin PCIe power connectors if they like. 00:05:38.940 --> 00:05:44.700 But Linus, you might say, I've got a 4090 and it's been totally fine. 00:05:44.700 --> 00:05:52.820 And you're right, lots of people do. The 12 volt high power connectors are fine, in ideal conditions. 00:05:52.820 --> 00:05:57.980 But what if you're using a poorly made extension or adapter, or jamming your card into a narrow 00:05:57.980 --> 00:06:01.260 case which puts pressure on the power connector? 00:06:01.260 --> 00:06:05.460 Well, now your ideal conditions have gone out the window. 00:06:05.460 --> 00:06:11.380 And as you can see in our CT scans, the card has no way of knowing if some of your wires 00:06:11.380 --> 00:06:15.100 booked a one way ticket to Nelts town. How are you guys doing? 00:06:15.100 --> 00:06:18.140 That's so far so good. Oh. 00:06:18.140 --> 00:06:21.140 All right, buddy. 00:06:21.140 --> 00:06:27.460 We just soldered straight to these and then we're G to G. I mean, yeah, we could. 00:06:27.460 --> 00:06:30.580 That size of wire on there looks like it could be a bit of a challenge. 00:06:30.580 --> 00:06:34.460 Yeah, it's not great if you want the paths to stay on spot. 00:06:34.460 --> 00:06:38.100 My question for you then is, why do we need such a big one? 00:06:38.100 --> 00:06:43.020 This seems like massive overkill for a GPU, especially when you look at the wimpy little 00:06:43.020 --> 00:06:46.180 size of the 16 gauge wires that are running it already. 00:06:46.180 --> 00:06:51.780 Well, you have to make up for not having six of them. They have about a similar surface area when you really get down to it. 00:06:51.780 --> 00:06:55.620 Similar? Is this actually enough? It's maybe a little bit on the light side. 00:06:55.620 --> 00:06:58.820 We could go with a six gauge, but, you know, those are the connectors. 00:06:58.820 --> 00:07:03.660 Our wire might actually get a little bit on the warmer side, but at least our connector 00:07:03.660 --> 00:07:08.260 will make properly. Here's my other question. 00:07:08.260 --> 00:07:12.980 If NVIDIA feels that a single 12 volt and a single ground connection to the board is 00:07:12.980 --> 00:07:18.980 fine, why did they reinvent the wheel instead of just using one of the numerous high amperage 00:07:18.980 --> 00:07:24.780 power connectors that already exist that could have just gone to two fickle wires? 00:07:24.900 --> 00:07:28.620 We'll get to that later. First, let's rip that connector off. 00:07:28.620 --> 00:07:33.220 Wow, I mean, they're definitely stronger together. 00:07:33.220 --> 00:07:36.380 Ape wire strong together. Woo! 00:07:36.380 --> 00:07:39.660 See you later, buddy. That looks a lot thicker. Oh, maybe not. 00:07:39.660 --> 00:07:44.340 And they're copper. Oh, hey, there it goes. Oh, wow, there's all that liquid metal. 00:07:44.340 --> 00:07:48.100 Yep, there it is. Wow, that's a lot of liquid metal. 00:07:48.100 --> 00:07:51.620 That is? Well, they didn't cheap out on that. 00:07:51.620 --> 00:07:56.300 The board is so tiny. Yeah, I know. All right, let's rip our connector off. 00:07:56.300 --> 00:08:00.460 Super cool. I can't believe we're doing this. 00:08:00.460 --> 00:08:06.460 What do you think motivated them to just combine everything into these two bus, I mean, I 00:08:06.460 --> 00:08:11.740 would almost call it like a bus bar? What would you call these? I'd get a rail or bus bar, yeah, bus. 00:08:11.740 --> 00:08:17.860 Sure. Why would they combine it into just two instead of grouping three pins and then the next three 00:08:17.860 --> 00:08:23.420 or something like that? They did do groups of three and smaller groups on previous ones, but I think they just needed 00:08:23.420 --> 00:08:30.580 the whole, all the surface area they could get because even on the bottom, you can see there's not much, it doesn't take much surface area of the board and like the bottom of the 00:08:30.580 --> 00:08:37.140 rail. Yeah, I guess that's true. That is a really, really small contact point for a freaking like 50 amps, isn't it? 00:08:37.140 --> 00:08:40.900 If they were trying to split that into two and then run both of those at 25, then they'd 00:08:40.900 --> 00:08:45.700 be smaller. Do you think this came down to them trying to make this board super small for the pass 00:08:45.700 --> 00:08:50.100 through cooler? I imagine so, yeah. 00:08:50.100 --> 00:08:55.980 Now it's time to start hacking off the connector. I'm going to do it also carefully with a pair of snips here. 00:08:55.980 --> 00:08:59.380 You know we're going to hell for this, right? Oh, absolutely. Okay. 00:08:59.380 --> 00:09:02.380 Wait, what happened? How'd you knock off this puggle pin? 00:09:02.380 --> 00:09:05.380 I'll be honest with you. I don't know. I just noticed it wasn't there. 00:09:05.380 --> 00:09:08.380 Oh, balls. Where does it come from? Right there. 00:09:08.380 --> 00:09:11.380 Oh. Luckily for you, I feel pretty confident about putting it back. 00:09:11.380 --> 00:09:14.420 Hey, I soldered one of the CPU pins on the broken CPUs. 00:09:14.420 --> 00:09:19.020 I got it back on. Okay. I'm still glad this isn't like a for realsies thing because I would have been fired. 00:09:19.020 --> 00:09:23.540 Didn't fix the CPU on you. I turned back on, so I'd say I did. 00:09:23.540 --> 00:09:27.780 Yeah, I think she's going here, here, here, maybe pliers. 00:09:27.780 --> 00:09:31.700 You're using a cutting tool to pull, pull, she's clean, bud. 00:09:31.700 --> 00:09:36.420 Yeah. I think that should give us place room, but she'd be plenty of room to solder to. 00:09:36.420 --> 00:09:39.780 Okay. Do we, we know which one's ground, right? 00:09:39.780 --> 00:09:43.300 Yes. It's the one furthest away from the sense pin. 00:09:43.300 --> 00:09:49.700 Beautiful. So this bad boy, damn it, I stabbed myself. 00:09:49.700 --> 00:09:58.260 Okay. So without stabbing ourselves, I propose fins out like that and then goes on there. 00:09:58.260 --> 00:10:02.620 How the hell are we going to do that? I think that's basically impossible. 00:10:02.620 --> 00:10:05.780 Okay. New plan. That was my plan. 00:10:05.780 --> 00:10:08.780 We bend it. That was my plan. Oh. 00:10:08.780 --> 00:10:13.900 Use a pair of pliers towards the base gently. 00:10:13.900 --> 00:10:17.900 She'll be fine. So now we got some room in there. It's not much, is it? 00:10:17.900 --> 00:10:22.740 Oh, it depends which way you look at it. I'm going to solder to that side probably and then that side, that way they have no 00:10:22.740 --> 00:10:27.660 chance of meeting in the middle. So we've taken the Henry Ford approach to wire colors. 00:10:27.660 --> 00:10:31.300 You can have any you want as long as it's the one. Exactly. 00:10:31.300 --> 00:10:34.300 We're using red wires for both. 00:10:34.300 --> 00:10:37.780 Oh, good. How could we possibly get it mixed up? 00:10:37.780 --> 00:10:41.300 Okay. Is that the one that you're planning to solder to the board or is that the other one? 00:10:41.300 --> 00:10:44.380 Yes, this is the one going to the board. Okay. I said six inches long though. 00:10:44.380 --> 00:10:48.100 It's a little, I'm feeling a little inadequate looking at it. 00:10:48.100 --> 00:10:51.980 I bet you if you grab a ruler right now that is six inches. I don't, I don't use rulers. 00:10:51.980 --> 00:10:57.220 I use emotions to measure certain things. Ah, yes. 00:10:57.220 --> 00:11:00.380 We're not going to get the polarity mixed up with our two red wires, right? 00:11:00.380 --> 00:11:03.620 Nope. One says positive, one says negative. Brilliant. 00:11:03.620 --> 00:11:07.900 As long as he sticks to that, I'm positive that nothing negative will happen. 00:11:07.900 --> 00:11:13.220 Yeah, you got the right idea. I can't believe we're doing this to this thing. 00:11:13.220 --> 00:11:17.780 Just so you guys know, our plan is not to like never use this again or whatever. 00:11:17.860 --> 00:11:23.900 This will still be in service. Just whenever we use it, we're going to have to use a bit of a special power supply. 00:11:23.900 --> 00:11:27.540 Hey, we should maybe start working on that power cable. 00:11:27.540 --> 00:11:33.780 Wait, what is this? I told you guys, I don't want to do that with the thing. 00:11:33.780 --> 00:11:37.140 Guys, come on. 00:11:37.140 --> 00:11:42.060 I mean, it's nicer than soldering it. 00:11:42.060 --> 00:11:45.060 It's so janky. 00:11:45.060 --> 00:11:48.980 This is so much worse than just soldering it all to the white. 00:11:48.980 --> 00:11:53.500 Anything I'll recommend crimps over just soldering to another connector? 00:11:53.500 --> 00:12:00.540 The crimps are not the problem. The giant connectors here are the problem. 00:12:00.540 --> 00:12:04.780 This is what they want to do. They want to just put a bolt through all of this. 00:12:04.780 --> 00:12:09.380 So why is crimping it better than soldering it? I've always wondered that too, because... 00:12:09.380 --> 00:12:12.860 Far more structurally sound and not as brittle as solder. 00:12:13.020 --> 00:12:20.540 Basically, we have to plug into our modular power supply somehow. So we took the modular cable that of course has a 12 volt 2 by 6 on it. 00:12:20.540 --> 00:12:27.940 And then on the other end, we're going to adapt that to just two big chunks of 12 volt and ground. 00:12:27.940 --> 00:12:33.540 But these sense pins are needed for the power supply and the GPU to communicate their capabilities to each other. 00:12:33.540 --> 00:12:39.660 So we were hoping to just use the original block of sense pins and just plug them on. 00:12:39.660 --> 00:12:43.180 But I have to reattach them now because I cut them off earlier. 00:12:43.180 --> 00:12:48.620 Okay, I've got the sense pins reassembled. Is there anything that would prevent us from putting the card back together? 00:12:48.620 --> 00:12:54.780 In theory, no, but just for as a last sanity check here, let's just do a continuity check and make sure that those two ain't shortened 00:12:54.780 --> 00:12:57.820 before we send a whole bunch of power through it. All right. 00:12:57.820 --> 00:12:59.380 All right, beep equals bad. 00:13:02.820 --> 00:13:06.900 Only a singular beep, not two beeps. No beeps, we're good. 00:13:06.900 --> 00:13:11.060 Okay, good luck everybody. Doesn't look janky at all. 00:13:11.060 --> 00:13:14.460 Yeah. Are we even going to have enough clearance for all of this crap? 00:13:14.460 --> 00:13:17.460 Oh boy. Yep, not enough clearance. 00:13:17.460 --> 00:13:21.460 Why not? Well, because we might have bent things a lot. 00:13:21.460 --> 00:13:24.460 A little. We added like six inches of wire to the back of the card. 00:13:24.460 --> 00:13:27.460 Well, look, I'd like to see you do better. 00:13:27.460 --> 00:13:35.460 Nah, it wouldn't happen. I think with the way I've bent it a little bit, lightly bent it, I think she goes. 00:13:35.460 --> 00:13:38.460 Oh, she's a goer. Dude, she's a goer. 00:13:38.460 --> 00:13:42.460 Beautiful. Oh my God, not beautiful, but something. 00:13:42.460 --> 00:13:47.460 Oh my God. Okay. Well, that's a thing that exists now. 00:13:47.460 --> 00:13:50.460 This might be the worst thing we've ever done. 00:13:50.460 --> 00:13:54.460 Come on. I feel like for how often I say that, I'm going to need like a shirt. 00:13:54.460 --> 00:13:57.460 Glenn, are you getting this? Which one? 00:13:57.460 --> 00:14:00.460 This. Okay. What the? 00:14:00.460 --> 00:14:03.460 What? I didn't do this. I'm making it safe. 00:14:03.460 --> 00:14:06.460 I blame Lucas 100%. 00:14:06.460 --> 00:14:10.460 He insisted that we not solder the eight wires to the one wire. 00:14:10.460 --> 00:14:13.460 That would have looked way worse. What? 00:14:13.460 --> 00:14:17.460 No way. I thought you people are supposed to be the adults in the room. 00:14:17.460 --> 00:14:21.460 What, you people? No, obviously, I don't mean it like that. 00:14:21.460 --> 00:14:25.460 I mean, you people, the people who work here and are supposed to supervise me. 00:14:25.460 --> 00:14:29.460 Just don't touch the new work. It'll be fine. 00:14:29.460 --> 00:14:32.460 Anyone else getting like a BDSM vibe from this? 00:14:33.460 --> 00:14:36.460 Crap it on there. 00:14:36.460 --> 00:14:39.460 Sorry. This is so stupid. 00:14:39.460 --> 00:14:42.460 Okay. What am I checking? Sorry. 00:14:42.460 --> 00:14:45.460 Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 00:14:45.460 --> 00:14:48.460 Yeah. I got you. Okay. 00:14:48.460 --> 00:14:52.460 This is the worst thing we've ever done. Not yet. I mean, it hasn't died yet. 00:14:52.460 --> 00:14:55.460 Oh my God. As far as we're aware. 00:14:55.460 --> 00:14:59.460 Oh my God. Good call. 00:14:59.460 --> 00:15:02.460 Now we take our sense pins and... 00:15:02.460 --> 00:15:05.460 Oh boy, can I get in there? Oh yeah, I can get in there. 00:15:05.460 --> 00:15:10.460 Okay. Sense pins are connected. Now we just need to do our power connector and... 00:15:10.460 --> 00:15:15.460 Oh! Wow. That's a connection and a half. 00:15:15.460 --> 00:15:19.460 At least a connection and a third. I mean, she's locked on there pretty good, right? 00:15:19.460 --> 00:15:24.460 Oh man, I'm not going to lie. I'm a little stressed right now. 00:15:24.460 --> 00:15:27.460 Do you guys imagine for a second that after what we did to this, 00:15:27.460 --> 00:15:30.460 NVIDIA is going to replace this for us? You know, we need one. 00:15:30.460 --> 00:15:34.460 It's not like we could buy one easily. 00:15:34.460 --> 00:15:38.460 The fans are spinning. The lights are on. The lights are on. 00:15:38.460 --> 00:15:41.460 These are very good signs. Yes! 00:15:45.460 --> 00:15:48.460 Oh, dude. It's fine. Okay. 00:15:48.460 --> 00:15:52.460 But we're not really drawing any power yet. So I guess we never explained the sense pins. 00:15:52.460 --> 00:15:55.460 These tell the G... Oh wait, did I explain that? I think I did. 00:15:55.460 --> 00:15:58.460 Well, whatever. The plan was to ground sense zero and one, 00:15:58.460 --> 00:16:03.460 which will tell everything 600 watts is fine, but we didn't do that because our sense pins ended up working. 00:16:03.460 --> 00:16:06.460 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, test. Let's do it. 00:16:06.460 --> 00:16:09.460 Benchmark 2160. 00:16:09.460 --> 00:16:12.460 What could go wrong? 00:16:12.460 --> 00:16:16.460 Oh, that was a little scary. 00:16:16.460 --> 00:16:19.460 Oh? I mean, wasn't it when the screen went blank? 00:16:19.460 --> 00:16:22.460 I wasn't watching that screen. I thought it was a little scary. Okay. 00:16:22.460 --> 00:16:26.460 She's squealing a little, but from my understanding, that's kind of normal for these Founders editions. 00:16:26.460 --> 00:16:29.460 Why is it like 40 to 50? 00:16:29.460 --> 00:16:32.460 I mean, that's well within safe, right? 00:16:32.460 --> 00:16:36.460 Yeah. Hold on. What are these wires rated for? 00:16:36.460 --> 00:16:39.460 Come on, people. It should be over 80 or 90. 00:16:39.460 --> 00:16:42.460 85. There you go. Huh. 00:16:42.460 --> 00:16:46.460 GPU temp, 73. GPU clock, 2.33 gigahertz. 00:16:46.460 --> 00:16:49.460 That's what we would expect. 00:16:49.460 --> 00:16:53.460 Fans are working. GPU power, 575 watts. 00:16:53.460 --> 00:16:57.460 It has the rest of the cable temp here. 00:16:57.460 --> 00:17:01.460 30 there. The line is heading the way there. 00:17:01.460 --> 00:17:04.460 Well, I'm checking. I'm checking. It's 30. 00:17:04.460 --> 00:17:10.460 It looks like a great connection to me. 00:17:10.460 --> 00:17:13.460 There you go. So it's going to your personal rig now? 00:17:13.460 --> 00:17:16.460 I mean, I don't see how anyone else could use it. 00:17:16.460 --> 00:17:20.460 No, I think the lab wants it back, actually, which is kind of hilarious. 00:17:20.460 --> 00:17:23.460 I don't if they want this one back. You sure? Why not? 00:17:23.460 --> 00:17:28.460 It's perfectly fine. Perfectly good. If anything, I would say it's safer than before. 00:17:28.460 --> 00:17:33.460 That's true. I wouldn't say it with a lot of confidence, but I would say it. 00:17:33.460 --> 00:17:39.460 So it works. And sure, it's not standard, but NVIDIA has clearly demonstrated 00:17:39.460 --> 00:17:43.460 that when they throw their weight behind something, it quickly becomes a standard. 00:17:43.460 --> 00:17:49.460 So after being stung once by these little piddly little connectors, 00:17:49.460 --> 00:17:53.460 why didn't they just do this? Well, there are a few reasons we can think of, 00:17:53.460 --> 00:17:57.460 but the most important one probably is cost. 00:17:57.460 --> 00:18:01.460 It's always cost, isn't it? Looking at some common bulk sources, 00:18:01.460 --> 00:18:06.460 the difference in price between the two connectors is realistically going to be pennies. 00:18:06.460 --> 00:18:09.460 So what it seems to come down to is the wire. 00:18:09.460 --> 00:18:14.460 Now, technically NVIDIA doesn't need any wire to build their cards, 00:18:14.460 --> 00:18:17.460 but anytime you create an industry standard, 00:18:17.460 --> 00:18:22.460 you have to consider everyone's perspective. And when we looked at the difference in cost 00:18:22.460 --> 00:18:26.460 between 12 16 gauge conductors, like we have now, 00:18:26.460 --> 00:18:30.460 versus two big fat eight gauge conductors of the same length, 00:18:30.460 --> 00:18:35.460 it was a bigger difference than we thought. And when you multiply that across all the thousands, 00:18:35.460 --> 00:18:38.460 millions of systems that are being built worldwide, 00:18:38.460 --> 00:18:41.460 you start to understand why they want to go with 00:18:41.460 --> 00:18:46.460 whatever the cheapest connector is. Not to mention that thinner conductors are also more flexible 00:18:46.460 --> 00:18:49.460 for cable management and easier to work with 00:18:49.460 --> 00:18:52.460 in manufacturing, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 00:18:52.460 --> 00:18:58.460 So I understand why they did it, but that doesn't mean that what we're dealing with now is okay. 00:18:58.460 --> 00:19:03.460 So what do we do? Are all 50 90s just as dangerous? 00:19:03.460 --> 00:19:06.460 Well, as it turns out, the answer is no. 00:19:06.460 --> 00:19:10.460 We reached out to both MSI and ASUS, NVIDIA board partners. 00:19:10.460 --> 00:19:14.460 ASUS then went as far as to assure us that their implementation 00:19:14.460 --> 00:19:17.460 allows per pin monitoring and even went as far 00:19:17.460 --> 00:19:21.460 as to create an in-game overlay to show that everything is working fine. 00:19:21.460 --> 00:19:25.460 As for what to do if you already bought a founder's edition, 00:19:25.460 --> 00:19:29.460 that I don't know, but I suspect that NVIDIA is going to have 00:19:29.460 --> 00:19:34.460 to do something about this, given the potential for a user safety problem. 00:19:34.460 --> 00:19:39.460 Maybe they recommend people do this? Probably not, but you know what they might recommend 00:19:39.460 --> 00:19:43.460 is this segue to our sponsor. If you guys enjoyed this video, why not check out 00:19:43.460 --> 00:19:46.460 the one where we gamed at 8K on the 50 90. 00:19:46.460 --> 00:19:51.460 I mean, all of its flaws is a very capable gaming card. 00:19:51.460 --> 00:19:55.460 Just gotta hook it up right.