Asus has given the special stealth power connector on its RTX 5090 BTF edition graphics cards a little upgrade. To show just ...

HPWR' power connector on the ASUS GeForce RTX 5090 handles 1000W of power at ease, with increased reliability.

That said, it's worth remembering that one still has to use a 12VHPWR cable, or multiple 8-pin PCIe cables, between the BTF ...

The rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence workloads is not only prompting widespread upgrades across data ...

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 ...

This connector is a smaller-scale twelve-pin plug that can provide up to 600 watts of power over a single, smaller bundle of wires compared to the old-school 8- and 6-pin connectors.

RTX 5090's power cable heating past boiling point raises concern. Thermal imaging reveals GPU's power connector reaching dangerous temperatures. Despite reports of gaming without issues, it's ...

Although it is doubtful that we have seen the last of this GPU power connector saga, it is telling that so far only GPUs with NVidia chips have gone full-in on the 12VHPWR/12V-2×6 connectors, no ...

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… ...

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 ...