Phantasm on Nostr: Everyone agreed (except nVidia) that pushing 600W through 12VHPWR was a bad idea when ...
Everyone agreed (except nVidia) that pushing 600W through 12VHPWR was a bad idea when the Molex connector wasn't made for it, but pushing 200+W through a much smaller USB-C connector with way smaller pins is somehow fine.
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