Well this is beyond absurd.
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3 daysA good power supply will have good OVP and OCP protections to help keep the various connections from frying the power supply and hopefully save the equipment unlike a cheap one but at the end of the day cheap or expensive, power supplies are not pushing current over to the equipment, just responding to the pull from the equipment.
Unless this cheap power supply was shorted and just flowing current over to the GPU, I doubt the power supply was a major factor in this connector failing considering all of the information we know at this point.
It’s hilariously sad how bad the 12vhp standard, the implementation is.
Well damn, there goes some good intentions.
This is why gamers will continue to be screwed by the industry.
12vhp is such a crap connector spec.
Considering that even the EU squashed the 'Stop Killing Games" petition and declined to address any new laws, it might be a while for any country to do so.
At this point it doesn’t even have to succeed, just be the only choice as the tech fascists kill the ability to buy hardware and software.
90 dollars worth of a plastic pile of green poo.
You know, for that reassuring sense of cultish belonging to a corporation.