19 or 20

Is that rimworld with or without rocketman?

For games with no native client and run through proton: 4% faster at 1080p, 3% faster at 1440p, and 0.8% at 4k average

Every cable except for Nvidia’s 8 pin octopus cable adapters are third party. That includes the native 12Vhpwr/12V-2x6 cables that are coming with high end PSUs. The actual connectors are all made by either Amphenol or Molex anyway.

Now you’re really showing how uniformed you are. It’s not an extension cable, it’s 20cm in length total which is significantly shorter than what comes with standard 12Vhpwr native PSUs at 60-70cm.

There wasn’t even anything wrong with the minifit jr 8 pin pcie connectors, the official spec of 150W massively derated. If Nvidia really wanted to cap the number of plugs and not change any specs then the 8 pin EPS connectors are rated at 288W.

This is addressed in the video…

Interesting that it lasted two years with their 4090 with no ill effects. Even though the 5090 is higher power draw, I would suspect the contact resistance of the cable was causing heating even before, just not enough to smell or deform the connectors.

What distro did you end up with?

Who the hell recommended Arch to you? Arch is for when you’ve been using Linux for a few years and have gotten bored waiting for the latest updates to hit your repos.