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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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