In the slightly-bowdlerized words of GTA San Andreas protagonist Carl Johnson, "Aw, crap. Here we go again." Virtually anyone reading this site will well remember the unfortunate failures of 12VHPWR ...

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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 ...

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If you're reading this site, you probably are well familiar with the controversy over the 12VHPWR connector used on NVIDIA's recent graphics cards. This connector is a smaller-scale twelve-pin plug ...

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It's no secret that the latest graphics cards from AMD and especially Nvidia are power-hungry beasts, and all indications are the next-gen GPUs will be even hungrier. With rumors that both companies ...

A few weeks ago, some early adopters of Nvidia’s new flagship RTX 4090 GPU began reporting that the cards’ power connectors were overheating and melting their plastic casing, sometimes causing damage ...

The Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) has developed a revised specification for the 16-pin 12VHPWR graphics card power connector. According to a report from Igor's Lab ...