A few months ago, we covered the first reported case of a 16-pin power connector meltdown for AMD's RX 9070 XT. Usually, it's Nvidia's RTX 4090 and 5090s that face the fire, but Sapphire has adopted ...

The very latest 12V-2x6 "H++" power connectors have been shipping on NVIDIA's latest GeForce RTX 40 SUPER series graphics cards, offering higher power delivery than what the 12VHPWR "H+" power ...

Why it matters: After a recent safety scare concerning RTX 4090 power cables, some hardware companies plan to test methods to circumvent them entirely. Asus offered an early look at a new GPU ...

Thermal Grizzly's impressive WireView Pro II, which offers per-pin monitoring and protection for GPUs, is now available in a new White Edition.

Asus has given the special stealth power connector on its RTX 5090 BTF edition graphics cards a little upgrade. To show just how capable it is, Asus China's general manager, Tony Yu, released a video ...

The yellow 12V-2x6 graphics card power connectors that MSI introduced for RTX graphics card owners to prevent power shorting and melted cables may not provide long-term protection. As TechPowerUp ...

WTF?! Confirming that the melting 16-pin power connector problem hasn't gone away, another RTX 4090 user says that not only has his connector melted on the GPU side, it simultaneously turned to molten ...

PC builders have long lamented the difficulty of hiding the cables inside their PCs. Though many case manufacturers have made this process easier with PSU shrouds and tiny holes to poke cables through ...

AMD and Intel are reportedly testing 16-pin power connectors on their next-gen gaming GPUs, meaning these new graphics cards could finally ditch the good old-fashioned 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power ...

Nvidia's new RTX 4090 and 4080 GPUs both use a new connector called 12VHPWR to deliver power as a way to satisfy ever-more power-hungry graphics cards without needing to set aside the physical space ...