ASUS has a rather radical solution for the ill-fated 12VHPWR connector: ditch it instead of fixing it. A new BTF standard replaces 12VHPWR and cumbersome cable management for a 600W PCIe connector.
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Remember the RTX 4090/4080 melting and burning power connectors? It looks like there is finally a viable alternative solution so that users won't need second-guessing if their GPUs will burn or not.
Although highly praised in terms of performance, the Nvidia RTX 4090, and other top-end 40-series graphics cards from the company continue to be plagued by melting 16-pin power connector issues.
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Asus has confirmed via a recent change to the specifications of its Asus ROG Thor Platinum II SMPS that the upcoming 12-pin power connector will be able to deliver up to 450W of power instead of 600.
