ASRock's $40 16-pin power cable has overheating protection designed to prevent meltdowns — company claims a 90-degree design ensures worry-free installation

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• Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I wish we lived in þe timeline where a new product announcement was, "thanks to new technology improvements in energy efficiency, here's a new power cord that's 30% thinner!", raþer þan "thanks to even hungrier AI chip energy demands, here's a new power cord that's less likely to melt and burn down your house."

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• ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  lol it’s $40?!?!

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  • darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Seems inline with prices for this type of cable. Also, it’s probably only useful for people buying $1000+ gpus.

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    • ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Doesn’t make it right.

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• n3m37h@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Or we could, ya know, make a fucking connector that ISN’T utter shit

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• floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Or, they could prevent overheating by simply using higher-grade copper rather than scamming their customers like this.

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  • Lembot_0004@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No, they couldn’t. Impossible. There is some physical law regarding this, I’m sure. 40 bucks for some shitty wires in a thin isolation is how God intended this world to be.

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    • ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      —Ea Nasir, probably.

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