12VHPWR on RTX 5090 is Extremely Concerning

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Outro:
1998 Beats - Strange Things

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:00 Thermal Grizzly (Advertising)
1:18 The Reddit post: User error?
3:41 The damaged cable
5:10 Connector & cable under the microscope
5:55 The GPU-12VHPWR connector
6:50 The power supply
8:01 Power supply side of the cable
8:19 Third-party cable as the cause?
9:48 Excursion into materials science
10:26 Third-party supplier issue
11:09 Thermal imaging camera: temperatures & plugs
13:05 Thermal imaging camera: cables under load
15:09 Measuring with the clamp meter
16:04 Current distribution as a problem?
17:55 Checking the plugs
18:03 Summary/Conclusion
20:13 Outro