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I hope that a brand that produce PSUs and GPUs develop a higher voltage rail and a card that goes with it as an open standard.

Wishful thinking, I know.

Especially because I don't even know if they can drift from the nVidia/AMD specs that much before being sanctioned or something.

Yeah, they will be more expensive, but I'd rather pay few bucks more and be safer/not to worry to burn my house down.

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IIRC at the last PC trade show (the one in Taipei) one of the GPU+Motherboard makers was showing a prototype system where the PCIe slot had an additional slot behind it just for power, so no cables were required. Of course then that additional power needs to get into (and flow across) the motherboard somehow.

That would be amazing even though it requires now 3 non standard components (PSU, Motherboard, and GPU). Would still go for it probably

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