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This new Asus graphics card connector can supply 1,000W of power with no cable

Asus has just unveiled a new graphics card connector that does away with the power cables and sockets of conventional cards, and instead relies on a motherboard slot to deliver power, able to deliver ...
Club386

Sapphire’s new X870EA Nitro+ motherboard does away with the need for GPU power cables

Sapphire releases its flagship X870EA Nitro+ PhantomLink motherboard series for AMD Ryzen CPUs, featuring a GC-HPWR graphics ...
Neowin

ASUS' new graphics cards and motherboards replace 12VHPWR connector with a 600W PCIe

At CES 2024, ASUS unveiled a new standard for motherboards, graphics cards, and cases. Called BTF (short for Back-to-The-Future), it offers much cleaner cable management with power connectors at the ...
PC Gamer

Cable-free GPU power connector could deliver up to 900W and have a longer lifespan than 12VHPWR

There's a new cable-free power connector for graphics cards on the way and it doesn't play around. Rated to deliver anywhere between 600W and 900W, the GC-HPCE connection would suitably cover any of ...
Club386

Cybenetics proposes a 12V-2×6 adapter that will sound an alarm if your GPU power cables are about to melt

This active monitoring adapter isn't pretty, but measures the amperage of each power-delivery wire to identify any unwanted ...
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An Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card power socket has already melted

Less than two weeks after its release, the first report of a melting Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 has surfaced online. While a third-party power cable was used, it's unclear right now what caused the fault ...
Neowin

ASUS will start making its cable-free graphics cards by the end of 2023, but there's a catch

A couple of months ago, we posted a story from the Computex 2023 trade show. ASUS was there showing off some interesting new concepts for PC hardware. One of them was a prototype for a graphics card ...