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Nvidia’s RTX 4090 16-pin Adapter Woes

That’s not particularly surprising, given the new king of GPUs has a base power draw of 450W and custom cards can push that up to nearly 600W. But there’s a potentially bigger problem, and it involves Nvidia’s ‘quadropus’ 8-pin to 16-pin adapter cable.

All RTX 4090 cards appear to come with the same adapter cable, bearing an Nvidia logo. On one side is

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