I'm hardware-refreshing my old HTPC to an i5-3570K on a MSI Z77A-G41 which has an 8-pin 12V CPU power connector, and the PSU I have is an Antec Earthwatts EA-380 PSU, which has a 4-pin ATX 12V ...

This is on one of those ultra cheap PSUs that usually come included if you buy a cheap generic case. I swappwed this one out for a decent Seasonic unit from new, so this one has never been used (until ...

The debut of the new 12VHPWR power connector with the arrival of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 Series wasn't smooth. With widespread reports of cables 'melting,' it led to a redesign with the newer and ...

According to Prohardver, this connector could replace the established 8-pin and 6-pin power connectors, which have been used in graphics cards without any problems so far. It appears that Chipzilla ...

Highly anticipated: The curious case of the melting connector has been a hotly debated topic among RTX 4090 owners, manufacturers, and independent third parties since the first case was reported in ...

TL;DR: ASRock has introduced 19 new ATX 3.1 standard PSUs with PCIe 5.1-ready 12V-2x6 power connectors across its Taichi, Phantom Gaming, Challenger, and Steel Legend series. These PSUs are Cybenetics ...

It was an exciting weekend for graphics card overclockers as several worked on one-upping each other in breaking world ...

At CES 2026, MSI unveiled a new power-supply safety feature called GPU Safeguard, designed to address ongoing concerns around ...

A new high density power connector designed as part of the PCIe 5.0 standard, and rumoured to be present on the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, has come to light. Called 12VHPWR, the new connector can ...

I honestly would have loved to see modern GPUs use the old 6+2 PSU to GPU power cables, as it worked just fine in the past, and could do today… sort of. The issue is that with flagship cards like the ...