Lock it up! Lock it up! Lock it up!

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May I introduce my 1999 base engine VW Golf to you?

You can claim the quote is Fair Use and that your shitty business model depends on it.

I upgraded to an open box 7900 XT from my Vega 56. I tried getting a 9070 XT and was still in my return window, but damn am I glad I got the discounted previous gen card.

I definitely could not play all the latest games on the highest setting with the card I’d been rocking since 2017.

Absolutely.

Well, of course. What can you expect from a Chinese PCB that costs only 2500 USD, right?

Right.

The problem seems to be load balancing, or lack thereof. A German guy on YouTube noticed that his cable got up to 150°C at the PSU end, due to one wire delivering 20 or 22 amps, while the others were getting a lot less pumped through them. 22 Ampere is pretty much half the power draw of the card, through one wire instead of three if the load was properly balanced between them. That’s why it ran so hot and melted to shit.

If you’ve ever worked on your car’s 12 V electrics system, you’ll know how thick the wires (and corresponding connector sizes) are for things like window defrosters that will run through a 20 or 30 amp fuse.

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