You'll need a special BTF motherboard to use it, but after this week's reliability demonstration, it might well be worth ...

There’s a hot new power connector in the desktop PC world… and by hot, we mean “literally melting.” Issues with the new 12VHPWR power connector design for the latest PCIe 5.0-compliant ...

Power supply vendors are starting to ship 12VHPWR cables that ditch the bulky connector for a single cable that terminates into two 8-pin power connectors on a PSU. Corsair sells its own for $19.99 .

Asus has given the special stealth power connector on its RTX 5090 BTF edition graphics cards a little upgrade. To show just how capable it is, Asus China's general manager, Tony Yu, released a video ...

Nvidia's RTX 4090 power connectors typically melt quickly or not at all -- but it seems that, even after a year, the GPU can still be in danger. Skip to main content Menu ...

Melted GPU power connectors shouldn't be something to worry about with these new PSUs and connectors at CES 2024. News. By Jacob Ridley published 10 January 2024 ...

When PCI-SIG introduced the 12VHPWR power connector as a replacement for the 6- and 8-pin PCIe power connectors, it created a wave of controversy. There were enough cases of melting GPUs, PSUs, and… ...

However, many other graphics card manufacturers, including MSI, have stuck with a straight connector, so the new cable adapter should help. AMD, meanwhile, has largely chosen to avoid using the ...

In response to these issues, PCI-SIG has been working on a revised connector simply known as 12V-2x6. The name is descriptive: it carries 12 volts on a connector that has two rows of six pins. The ...