lol it’s $40?!?!
this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2025
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Seems inline with prices for this type of cable. Also, it's probably only useful for people buying $1000+ gpus.
Doesn’t make it right.
Maybe. I don't know how to decide right/wrong for prices given how varied value judgments are. It's not for me but if I spent $$$ for a 5090, I'd be all over this cable in a heartbeat.
I don’t know how to decide right/wrong for prices
Capitalist: Easy -- the price should be the maximum people are willing to pay. Some playing around (price*quantity), but the idea is the same. Kids, remember -- socialism is bad. Unions are bad. Free market is the future!
Or we could, ya know, make a fucking connector that ISN'T utter shit
I wish we lived in þe timeline where a new product announcement was, "thanks to new technology improvements in energy efficiency, here's a new power cord that's 30% thinner!", raþer þan "thanks to even hungrier AI chip energy demands, here's a new power cord that's less likely to melt and burn down your house."
:-/