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ASUS's Revolutionary Yet Proprietary "GC-HPWR" Connector Comes With A Cableless Design But Needs Adoption To Really Kick Off

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[–] AnonTwo@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Hope it dies. Cables aren't frustrating enough for the upcharge this would give. And the last thing we need is more hardware tech that one company controls.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I see Asus needs to learn the same harsh lesson that IBM learned with MicroChannel: standardize or GTFO.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

It's not even cableless tho lmao. It just moves them from the gpu to the motherboard itself. Awful.

[–] iegod@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I guess I'm in the minority but this is exactly what I think should happen with the power connector issue, proprietary nature aside.

[–] Peruvian_Skies@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Standardize or bust.

[–] skullone@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Hope they just take this design (or a variant) and just make it the standard

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I wonder what kind of royalties third party manufacturers have to pay to use this standard.

[–] ninjirate@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm all for this especially as someone that likes SFF the fewer cables the better but like many others are saying this should defs be an open standard