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		onethought on Oct 31, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nvidia investigating reports of RTX 4090 power cab... How can that be true? I plug a kettle cable from my a/c socket to the GPU... is there a rectifier involved in a standard PC setup?

mkl on Oct 31, 2022 [–]

You plug the AC cable into the PC's power supply, right? That converts to 5V and 12V DC and feeds it to the GPU internally. There's no way to plug external power directly into the GPU.

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