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.
MSI has revealed the MEG Ai1300P PSU, which is the world's first power supply that is compatible with Intel's latest ATX 3.0 standard, which provides greater reliability and power efficiency.
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Nvidia is rumored to be developing an RTX 4000 Ada Lovelace GPU with a whopping 900W TGP. This monstrous 900W card will reportedly be powered by not one, but two 16-pin PCIe Gen5 power connectors.
While Nvidia has already added PCIe 5.0 power support to its recently launched RTX 3090 Ti, the company is reportedly skipping the addition of PCIe 5.0 bus support on its RTX 4000 Ada Lovelace GPUs.
Alleged photos and specs for an MSI Suprim X GeForce RTX 3090 Ti have leaked. The leak shows the card is a thick one that comes with the new 16-pin PCIe 5.0 power connector and a massive 480W TGP/TDP.
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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.
