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

In the case of the 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connector, ... With the HCS connectors and 16 AWG wiring, you are looking at 10 A × 12 V × 3 = 360 watts, or a safety margin of 2.4.

Even MSI's custom, yellow 12V-2x6 power connectors aren't enough to stop Nvidia's RTX 5090s from occasionally burning their power cables and risking the entire PC in the process.

The question is, will Intel and AMD stick with the traditional 8-pin PCIe connectors for its next-gen GPUs or shift to the new 12V-2x6 PCIe standard.

MSI's X870 and X870E motherboards come with an auxiliary 8-pin power connector, which could indicate some scary next-gen GPU power consumption levels. News. By Chris Szewczyk published 26 August 2024 ...

Aiming at aircraft, Powell Electronics is offering high power connectors and cables from Glenair. The 972 series is designed for up to 2kVac, 1,500Hz and between 150 and 800A. With stainless steel ...

Mouser is offering PCIe 5.0 cable-to-board connectors from Molex that provide 12 power pins and four signal pins. “These connectors comply with the latest PCIe CEM 5.0/6.0 specifications and support ...

Nvidia has been quick to wave away concerns that its RTX 5090 flagship graphics card, which consumes close to 600W of power, won’t melt power connectors like its predecessor had a habit of doing ...

Some owners of Nvidia's new RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics cards are reporting cases of melting power connectors and damaged power supplies (PSU). The problem resembles what was seen when the ...