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[G3079]

Looks like the 12VHPWR connector might be a problem on the 5090s too.
Der8auer has a vid on it.
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Another guy explained why NVIDIA cheaping out on the input power section of the card was a bad idea.
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I don't game but have been looking at xx90 cards for LLM inference. I think I'll investigate if I can use a pair of 4070s instead.

Only on the FE, so the original Nvidia versions, according to him. The custom cards are unaffected, because they actually regard each power pin individually, while the 5090FE only views all of the pins summarily as one big power source and does not regulate how much power is drawn by each of them.
Hartung has determined that in his example almost all of the card's power draw came in via only two of the twelve pins, with up to 22 Ampere being applied to one of them, resulting in temperatures of over 150°C on those cables.

It's incredible how Nvidia could mess that up for their top-of-the-line product.

 

[tenpoless]

Im done with AMD. Their crap drivers keep crashing. I cant be bothered to fix it after trying absolutely everything, the only option left is to reinstall windows or try linux. Will not buy AMD cards ever again

 

[G3079]

Im done with AMD. Their crap drivers keep crashing. I cant be bothered to fix it after trying absolutely everything, the only option left is to reinstall windows or try linux. Will not buy AMD cards ever again

Why would faulty GPU drivers require the reinstallation of Windows (or switching to Linux)?

 

[tenpoless]

Why would faulty GPU drivers require the reinstallation of Windows (or switching to Linux)?

Maybe the linux one works better, I dont know actually. Because the windows 11 one is garbage. Every update results in worse stability. I did updates because I read the changelogs about "fixing ... and better performance on ..." so you'd think it will make everything smoother. But it resulted in my GPU getting disabled randomly even when I'm just idling on desktop - I don't even think it uses my GPU that much it's just rendering desktop ffs. When I did driver rollback the issue stayed there, never had this issue before December 2024 update. Tried DDU and clean install, tried disabling Windows Update, none worked. And there's no way I'm reinstalling Windows just to reinstall the correct driver version. I don't even remember which one worked!! so annoying.

My money is on the driver than the card. Because there has never been a single issue with startup checks during booting. And I could boot into Safe Mode and it works every time. Tried leaving the PC on safe mode for 10 hours+, GPU didn't get disabled that way. Safe mode doesn't use AMD driver, just Windows stock driver for bare minimum graphics. Hardware is useless with a crap software.