Nvidia investigating reports of RTX 4090 power cables burning or melting

Re:Nvidia investigating reports of RTX 4090 power cables bur... by izacus on Sunday October 30, 2022 @06:34AM (#33393160)

A gaming PC uses maybe 20-30% of power of an average kitchen appliance like a kettle or a blender. Those are plugged into standard wall sockets just fine.

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Re:Nvidia investigating reports of RTX 4090 power cables bur... by Hamuko on Sunday October 30, 2022 @06:49AM (#33393245)

Yeah, a kettle is gonna pull like 2200 W when it's switched on. I'll be impressed if a gaming PC can pull half of that during a gaming load.

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Re:Nvidia investigating reports of RTX 4090 power cables bur... by nigerianbrince on Sunday October 30, 2022 @07:13AM (#33393384)

Ffs don't give them ideas.

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Re:Nvidia investigating reports of RTX 4090 power cables bur... by gruez on Sunday October 30, 2022 @09:48AM (#33394482)

>Yeah, a kettle is gonna pull like 2200 W when it's switched on

...in areas that use 220/240V. In north america appliances are limited to around 1500W, because the mains voltage is 120V.

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Re:Nvidia investigating reports of RTX 4090 power cables bur... by andylynch on Sunday October 30, 2022 @10:48AM (#33394924)

Might depend on where you are and how seriously they take tea. Our very ordinary British kettle is 3kW.

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Re:Nvidia investigating reports of RTX 4090 power cables bur... by jcpham2 on Sunday October 30, 2022 @07:34AM (#33393508)

Depends on how many GPUs are in the PC. Circa 2011 I had quad-Radeon 6970 machines pulling ~1000w each from 1200 watt power supplies, measured with a kill-a-watt.

Those machines ran 24/7 for at least 36 months before I had to start servicing stuff like GPU fans and heat sinks.

This stuff can be designed NOT to melt the dang 6 pin 12v rail

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Re:Nvidia investigating reports of RTX 4090 power cables bur... by jcpham2 on Sunday October 30, 2022 @07:35AM (#33393514)

Depends on how many GPUs are in the PC. Circa 2011 I had quad-Radeon 6970 machines pulling ~1000w each from 1200 watt power supplies, measured with a kill-a-watt.

Those machines ran 24/7 for at least 36 months before I had to start servicing stuff like GPU fans and heat sinks.

This stuff can be designed NOT to melt the dang 12v rail

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Re:Nvidia investigating reports of RTX 4090 power cables bur... by izacus on Sunday October 30, 2022 @03:27PM (#33397729)

So you went up to cca 40-50% power use of a single kettle. Whoop.

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