Corsair Intros 180-degree 12VHPWR Power Bridge

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

Can close my case just fine, maybe case manufacturers need to adjust their cases.


Good luck, every day there are reports on their reddit of them melting due to bad quality.

Mine is fine because I can follow installation instructions.
Besides, Cablemods just sent out 100% discount coupon codes for their updated version that addresses that issue.

 

[Vayra86]

Well. I wish Corsair would revise their psu power cables. Just installed an RM650x (2021) and they put a heavy duty hot glue heat shrink at the end. It was so stiff I had to run the cpu cable over the gpu instead of behind the mobo. :|
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Oh yeah that's great too, short or too stiff CPU cable from the PSU. I have a case with a cheaper PSU in it and it just fits, as in, I have to literally hammer out every bit of flex there still is in that cable to jam the connector in the board. I hope I don't ever have to remove it, might have to cut the cable itself lol

 

[AusWolf]

Check this out, a 360 degree connector! Twice as good for a fraction of the cost

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instead of a 180 degree (??? isn't that a U turn straight back into the device it came from) connector to make that very much required 90 degree bend (?!) on a GPU that could have also just not have its connector in the very middle of what is generally known as a chonker' size of GPUs. I mean.. its not like there isn't space to move that to anywhere else... like the end of the shroud as is common practice for a few decades. Its not like Nvidia should've just delivered a proper bent adapter in the first place either, right. Or the fact there isn't a form factor limitation wrt the connector in the first place given 3 slot is the norm. How about a 90 degree bend towards the END of the GPU instead as well; no airflow obstruction and no added height to the entire contraption either. Even a child could think of these options.

Fucking ridiculous BS, this whole affair honestly just screams 'lazy as shit design choices' that mostly don't even feel like a choice, but rather an 'oopsie, we didn't figure that out in all of the five minutes we took printing this plastic POS'.

The cherry on top really is that these connectors are used in supposed premium products in the very top end of the leading GPU brand too. Fools & Money. Its about as bad as buying your all white mobo with every PCIe and RAM slot still in pitch black because hey that's the off the shelf part, too much effort to spray it white on 'premium' product costing well over twice what it should.


There is not a single tangible advantage here, nor necessity. The form factor doesn't require it. PSUs don't require it. The TDPs don't require it. A supposed 600W GPU takes four whopping slots anyway, they could just as well place 4 8 pins on top of one another at that point, and to be honest I reckon it'd look badass that way if they're placed at the end of the shroud, not its side.

Welcome to the 1970s when your $1m Lamborghini supercar has a turn signal stalk from a Toyota pickup truck.

 

[claes]

Check this out, a 360 degree connector! Twice as good for a fraction of the cost

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instead of a 180 degree (??? isn't that a U turn straight back into the device it came from) connector to make that very much required 90 degree bend (?!) on a GPU that could have also just not have its connector in the very middle of what is generally known as a chonker' size of GPUs. I mean.. its not like there isn't space to move that to anywhere else... like the end of the shroud as is common practice for a few decades. Its not like Nvidia should've just delivered a proper bent adapter in the first place either, right. Or the fact there isn't a form factor limitation wrt the connector in the first place given 3 slot is the norm. How about a 90 degree bend towards the END of the GPU instead as well; no airflow obstruction and no added height to the entire contraption either. Even a child could think of these options.

Fucking ridiculous BS, this whole affair honestly just screams 'lazy as shit design choices' that mostly don't even feel like a choice, but rather an 'oopsie, we didn't figure that out in all of the five minutes we took printing this plastic POS'.

The cherry on top really is that these connectors are used in supposed premium products in the very top end of the leading GPU brand too. Fools & Money. Its about as bad as buying your all white mobo with every PCIe and RAM slot still in pitch black because hey that's the off the shelf part, too much effort to spray it white on 'premium' product costing well over twice what it should.


There is not a single tangible advantage here, nor necessity. The form factor doesn't require it. PSUs don't require it. The TDPs don't require it. A supposed 600W GPU takes four whopping slots anyway, they could just as well place 4 8 pins on top of one another at that point, and to be honest I reckon it'd look badass that way if they're placed at the end of the shroud, not its side.

So glad I don’t feel like I need to write an essay every time I’m mad at the man

 

[Chrispy_]

There is not a single tangible advantage here, nor necessity. The form factor doesn't require it. PSUs don't require it. The TDPs don't require it.

The thing I really don't understand is the move away from MiniFit Jr - nice big pins and a little over 4A per wire/pin which is super safe, reliable, and robust.

12VHPWR not only doubles the current to 8.5A per wire/pin, it halves the contact patches per pin. If you're going to double the current, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS HOLY, DO NOT HALVE THE SIZE OF THE CONDUCTORS.

Nvidia uses 14 of the 16 pins in the HPWR connector - 6x12V, 6xGND, and two sense wires.

What was wrong with this 14-pin MiniFit Jr, exactly? It's less than half the size of the 3x8Pin previously used for 450W designs, and unlike 12V HPWR, the connector has a FORTY YEAR history of not being shit and has never required any alterations or revisions because it wasn't designed by a combination of sheeple and idiots.

 

[claes]

It’s an fortunate thing that the members of TPU were around in the 90’s to prevent all of the 400W+ components from catching fire

 

[Chrispy_]

It’s an fortunate thing that the members of TPU were around in the 90’s to prevent all of the 400W+ components from catching fire

Haha, 400W in the 90's
In the 90's the most power hungry components I had access to required a heatsink :

But MiniFit Jr had been carrying 10A loads in the automotive industry long before the PC industry even adopted Molex.

 

[Mr. Perfect]

Haha, 400W in the 90's
In the 90's the most power hungry components I had access to required a heatsink :
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But MiniFit Jr had been carrying 10A loads in the automotive industry long before the PC industry even adopted Molex.

Oh man, that brings back memories. My first PC had the 486-DX2, but the madman who built it for us put a 40mmx10mm fan on the heatsink and overclocked it to 99MHz! Benched faster than a 90MHz Pentium, great for games.