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Start monitoring your PC for roentgens.

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Three phase + Ground and a fucking interlock pin. Loving it.

Now we're just waiting for PSUs to provide a 400V rail with matching connector. Corsair, you wanna be first to the market?
- There's no interlock pin on these. The 5th is a neutral. Hubbell makes a few versions of these with an interlock system (these, but these are just 3 phase 208v plugs with ground and neutral.
  
  The one on the tip of the plug is a locking nub, proper outlets have a power switch that will only allow the plug to be removed when switched off, otherwise mechanically locking it into the outlet.
- Hope PCPartPicker lets you factor in the cost of calling your power company and asking them to wire up your house for 3 Phase soon.
- It's three phases + neutral + ground.
- That's a regular high(er) voltage plug here in Germany, usually carries around 400V
  
  Yup, using them a lot for 400V industrial here in Norway. We use those exact connectors (but without the interlock) at work.
I’ve used those for 208V 60-amp 3-phase power to racks in our Datacenter. Capable of supplying almost 18kW… those things are monster.
- So barely enough to let a 5090 run in idle on your desktop
- IEC 60309, they are standard for industrial applications in Europe
- Trying to get a sense of scale, the 4 screw points on the red retainer look like 1 1/4in.
  
  So are the prongs like the size of a thumb? 😳
  
  Maybe a pinky.
  
  But still, these are normally used for metal lathes and other big workshop machines like this.
  
  They are basically in every garage and shed here, don't you have these in 2-phase country?
"Not great. Not terrible."
ppl make this joke literally every time a new GPU generation comes out but i still laugh every time
I mean their last connecters burned out, so it's definitely an upgrade
At least it's green energy, I think?
- excuse you the plug is clearly red
- Right?
Same could go for any recent Intel processor too
Roentgens?! What year is it?!
Just increase the voltage. Less current, less heat.
- higher voltages use more power and heat
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_core_voltage
At least it won't set your house on fire

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