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[–] who@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

so going for the power limit of the bigger card is pushing things in a way that’s likely a bad idea.

And to be clear, "bad idea" means your graphics card is likely to die early. Components pushed hard for long tend to fail, and these things are generally pushed hard even at stock settings.