I got a Gigabyte P55 UD3 motherboard and was surprised to see a 8 pin, 12V connector instead of a 4 pin. ... The ATX Power supply standard is now at ATX 12V 2.1.

I'm hardware-refreshing my old HTPC to an i5-3570K on a MSI Z77A-G41 which has an 8-pin 12V CPU power connector, and the PSU I have is an Antec Earthwatts EA-380 PSU, which has a 4-pin ATX 12V ...

This power supply incorporates 8-pin PCIe cables for AMD & RTX series graphics cards, it also features two PCIe 12V-2X6 connectors for RTX 50 & 40 series cards which are compatible with PCIe Gen 5 ...

Gordon Mah Ung. You can see the advantage of an ATX12VO 8-pin connector (right) next to a standard 24-pin ATX connector (left). Quite a few of the extra pins and wires from the standard multi-rail ...

ASRock unleashes 19 new ATX 3.1 PCIe 5.1 PSUs: up to 1650W power, dual 12V-2x6 power connectors Intel Arc graphics driver brings up to 24% more performance to Core Ultra 'Lunar Lake' devices ...

These boards feature a supplemental PCIe power system with an integrated 8-pin PCIe ... beyond the system's typical 12V power supplied by the 24-pin ... MSI’s ATX 3.1 / 3.0 compatible ...

High-end video cards need an ATX 3.0 power supply. The RTX 4070 is supposed to utilize 'just' 300 watts, which you save with two 8-pin connections. PCI-SIG warns; 8-pin to 12VHPWR adapters can get ...

The 12V-2x6 connector introduces two new power modes, enabling support for 150W and 300W in addition to the existing 450W and 600W modes. Each pin of the connector can handle a minimum of 9.2 amps.