GPU "Cable Gate" is an official thing now. This week a Redditor posted images of a melted 12-pin adapter cable on their Nvidia RTX 4090. The power plug on the PCB was also irreversibly damaged as ...

NVIDIA's mid-range RTX 5060 Ti GPUs are expected to launch on April 16, and some of MSI's designs have leaked. Is that a 16-pin power connector I see?

12-pin PCIe power connector on Founders Edition ONLY: NVIDIA will be using a special new 12-pin PCIe power connector on its GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition graphics cards, something that I've ...

While a small adapter is included with each GPU for your existing power supply cables, that adapter converts two dedicated PCIe power cables to the new 12-pin connector per NVIDIA’s recommended ...

A prototype removes the need for a GPU power cable, improving airflow. The new 12-volt motherboard features a 50-pin design to supply 1500W to multiple components. The prototype requires a BTF3.0 ...

With one simple change to its 12VHPWR connector, MSI has made it very obvious when the connector isn't plugged in all the way into a graphics card or PSU. The bit that's meant to be on the inside ...

Nvidia introduced a new single 12-pin connector with its Founder Edition 30-series cards last year. Nvidia's reasoning at the time was that it wanted a smaller connector on the card itself.

With standard power cable designs, you have to convert 6+2 pins into 8 pin (or back) when installing the GPU. A single 12-pin eliminates the time wasted, and the potential for confusion among ...

For users with the latest ATX 3.0 PSUs, a 12+4 pin connector is available on both ends, while older PSU users can choose the 12+4 pin on the GPU side and three 8-pin connectors for the power supply.

The Strimer is a lighting module that also works as your motherboard’s main 24-pin power cable. Because it’s a cable extension, it should work with practically any power supply available.

Expect the 24-pin version of the Strimer Plus to retail for $60 when it debuts later this month, while the graphics-card version will go for $40. The former is the one that comes with the ...