

It’s less about the practicality of anybody other than a repairman resocketing and/or unplugging gpus daily and more about the fact that it’s of such measurably lower quality that resocketing and/or unplugging will permanently damage the device at some point.


I see you start off with a bit of devils advocacy before acknowledging the risks, but this is what happens with the 12VHPWR cables:
This is not normal. This is new.