A few months ago, we covered the first reported case of a 16-pin power connector meltdown for AMD's RX 9070 XT. Usually, it's Nvidia's RTX 4090 and 5090s that face the fire, but Sapphire has adopted ...

User Wing King posted images of a 12V-2x6 connector prototype on Bilibili, capable of monitoring current across each pin.The design has been developed to help monitor the current on each 12V pin of ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's RTX 5090 graphics card requires 4 x 8-pin connectors for 600W power officially, but can operate with 3 x 8-pin connectors at 450W, seemingly running only 5% slower in 4K benchmarks.

Update 11/18: In a new post on the Nvidia support page, the company confirmed that it is still "actively investigating" reports about the 12VHPWR 16-pin connector cable. Nvidia notes that "about 50 ...

Building a PC isn’t easy for everyone, but if you’re someone who’s planning on doing it soon or just a PC enthusiast who’s passionate about PCMR, then this is the perfect blog for you. In this column, ...

My source added: "It's in the PCIe 5.0 CEM spec. Not sure how many people got it wrong and why it's suddenly "news" because of ASUS. The 12-pin portion is actually the same as the FE connector". "And ...