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Nvidia is confident that their new power connectors won't melt. (UPDATE some reports of melting, user error?) ASUS still making an alternative.

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Nvidia is confident that the power connector melting issue is a thing of the past.  Meanwhile ASUS is still developing their "BTF" system that delivers power through a larger, slot based connection through the PCB of the motherboard.

 

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The company, represented by Nvidia APAC Director of Tech Marketing Jeff Yen, GeForce Tech Director for Marketing Sean Cleveland, and Nvidia Korea Senior VP Sunwook Kim, was answering some questions during the Nvidia RTX AI Day 2025 event. Someone in the audience asked if the RTX 5090 solved the problem that plagued the RTX 4090. The issue being "where the connector overheated and melted”. Nvidia answered, “We don’t expect that to happen with the RTX 50 series. We made some changes to the connector to respond to the issue at the time, and we know that it is not happening now, about two years later.”

 

That said ASUS still sees potential demand for their vendor specific BTF, through the motherboard, connector from Techpowerup.

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ASUS extended its line of motherboards at CES 2025, featuring a design that moves power connectors to the back of the board. The company calls this approach "BTF" (Back To Future), aiming to improve cable management in PC builds. 

 

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Asus has updated its BTF (Back to Future) standard with a new connector that provides significantly more power than the 12V-2x6 connector. HardwareLuxx reports that the new GC-HPWR connector is rated for 1,000W. It also features a retractable design, making the connector optional and improving BTF GPU compatibility with traditional motherboards.

UPDATE 2/3:

Issues with the power connectors on 5090's and with driver issues have been credibly reported as well.   Thanks to @DuckDodgers for posting on this.  Hopefully this isn't as much of a problem as 40 series was. 

 

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Hong Kong media PCM discovers melted cables and PSU failure after testing RTX 5090D/5080

 

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Source: https://videocardz.com/newz/hong-kong-media-pcm-discovers-melted-cables-and-psu-failure-after-testing-rtx-5090d-5080

 

 

 


 

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Lots of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 & 5090D GPUs Are Getting Bricked, Possibly Due To Driver, BIOS or PCIe Issues

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On Chinese forums including Chiphell, Baidu, and even the social media outlet, Bilibili, there are a bunch of reports of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090D ending up bricked. The two variants that have caused these issues are from manufacturers, Colorful and Manli. However, there are also a few reports of Gigabyte's RTX 5090D GPUs having the same issue have also popped up.

Now, as per the affected users, the problem started upon installing the latest drivers. One user says that he installed the GeForce RTX 5090D (Colorful) GPU inside his PC, booted it up, and upon installing the driver, the screen went black. The graphics card could no longer be recognized & the user checked both DP and HDMI interfaces.

Also, it looks like this issue might not be limited to the 5090D as some users with the GeForce RTX 5090 are also facing similar issues. Over on the r/ASUS subreddit, a user running the RTX 5090 is unable to detect the card on Windows, neither by the drivers nor by the BIOS. The user tried to clear CMOS, but that didn't work either.

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Source: https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-5090d-gpus-getting-bricked-possibly-driver-bios-pcie-issues/

 

 

 

 

 

My thoughts

My thoughts on the new cabling standard is the same as the old one the fundamental physical issue is channeling a lot of power via a small connector.   

 

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Basic physics dictates that when more energy is packed into a smaller container, when the energy density is high, there will be more thermal energy released.  It does not matter if that is an ideal gas being compressed, fuel being burned, oil being pumped through a pipeline, or electricity in a wire (or a battery).  

 

Looking at this.  The bad contact Jay talks about would result in a lot of heat as all the electricity tries to push through a smaller contact. 

 

Not unlike how water speeds up when going through a narrower pipe, or shoots out of a tiny hole in a bigger pipe. 

In my educated opinion, as a physicist, there is a fundamental flaw inherent in connecting ATX 3.0 to ATX2.0.  ATX 3.0 needs that bi directional communication to be safe. That communication is what mitigates the physical issue that come with pushing more energy into a smaller, more delicate connector.   

 

Though I gladly accept being corrected by an electrical engineer.  All I know about currents is Noether's theorem. 🙂 

 

Electrical engineering types did try to correct that.  All I ever took issue with was how some folks would act as if basic physics didn't dictate that there  was an issue that had to be considered more carefully.   Insisting it wasn't a fundamental physical issue but "user error".  That I was just "theorycrafting" as some would say it I'd say "theorizing" based on known establish laws of physics... that's neither here nor there.  The data is in  12vHPWR was garbage from the start.

 

(Listening to DerBaur I wonder how he feels about this redesign with shorter sense pins). 

 

I have a different perspective on this. While some fundamental physical issues remain, I believe the new 12V-2x6 connector will show improvements and will melt less than before, though caution is still advised.

 

In contrast, Asus's BTF "standard" connector  I'd be very surprised if it developed the same issue. Its larger, card edge and slot design minimizes the chances of user errors, and spreads the energy out more, meaning the graphics card will either function properly or not at all, rather than partially working while the connector melts and bubbles like crude oil. 

 

Regarding my plans I've been on a 3080.  My 3080 is a rare blower-style card, and my system is built for air-cooled thermal endurance. I’m also unsure if Nvidia will release a professional GPU with a blower design. My setup is more of a budget workstation, featuring one APU, one gaming card, and another dedicated to running CUDA and OpenCL in Linux.  IF a 5090 could be bifurcated with SR-IOV and passed through to a KVM or even better VirtioGPU then I'd toss Nvidia my money without reservations.   Paying $2000 for what is basically 2 GPU's I should be able to do as I will with it. 

Just be careful, keep your receipt or even chance waiting and seeing what happens. 

 

Thanks to the limited availability at launch this advice is what has been imposed on most who wanted to buy.  YOu know what... NVIDIA perhaps deserves to have its stock implode, that is from an Nvidia Stock holder who will holdl for the next 20 years.  Right now they are really messing up...a lot.   There are some claims that this is user error...but you know that was said last time too.  In my learned opinion a design that is such that anything but perfect execution by the user leads to fire is not a good one. 

 

Sources

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-confident-that-rtx-50-series-power-connectors-unlikely-to-melt-despite-higher-tdp

https://quasarzone.com/bbs/qn_report/views/444251  (Korean)

https://www.techpowerup.com/330693/asus-shows-btf-motherboards-with-hidden-power-connectors-at-ces-2025

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/asus-gpu-power-connector-delivers-1-000w-for-cableless-builds-gc-hpwr-has-a-retractable-design

 

For realized issues. 

Source: https://videocardz.com/newz/hong-kong-media-pcm-discovers-melted-cables-and-psu-failure-after-testing-rtx-5090d-5080
 https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-5090d-gpus-getting-bricked-possibly-driver-bios-pcie-issues/

 

 

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6 minutes ago, Uttamattamakin said:

Meanwhile ASUS is still developing their "BTF" system that delivers power through a larger, slot based connection through the PCB of the motherboard.

hasnt asus been developing this since before the 12-pin was even conceived of?

 

also, card edge connectors are not all that great for power transfer when compared to a good pin and socket connection. the surface area on a card edge connector is very small relative to the connector size, where a good pin and socket connection gets a LOT of surface area. also, asus's card edge connector still has a pin and socket connection on the back of the board.. it's not a solution, it's adding more problems.

 

10 minutes ago, Uttamattamakin said:

All I ever took issue with was how some folks would act as if basic physics didn't dictate that there  was an issue that had to be considered more carefully.   Insisting it wasn't a fundamental physical issue but "user error".

from what i've been able to work out owning a GTX 4070 super with a 12-pin, at least part of the issue is that this connector does not "click" in well at all. i've had mine actually pop out of the card after inspecting it VERY close to make sure it was seated all the way and latched in.. imagine my surprise when i go to close my side panel and see the fudging connector has fallen out.

 

i also fundamentally disagree with human error being the root cause.. the connectors are rated for what they are, engineering has been done to ensure they can handle that.. but if something as simple as "the latch cant actually hold the connector in" can surprise someone so nitpicky that a magnifying glass was involved... someone fucked up the latch design, and it's just inviting human error.

i also dont want to entertain the idea that there's some fundamental fault in the design of the mating contacts themselves, you can have the most perfect connector ever conceived of, if the mechanism to hold it in place fails quite consistently it is actual hot garbage.

 

sidenote.. today i fixed someone's e-bike battery with a hammer, because this exact issue is apparently a problem everywhere, and one of the contacts had slipped out of the connector because it was held in place with f*cking glue... after some percussion we now have a working battery again, with the contacts back where they belong.

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Why did we ever switch away from PCIe 8 Pin? I mean seriously, it worked!

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8 minutes ago, manikyath said:

i also fundamentally disagree with human error being the root cause.. the connectors are rated for what they are, engineering has been done to ensure they can handle that.. but if something as simple as "the latch cant actually hold the connector in" can surprise someone so nitpicky that a magnifying glass was involved... someone fucked up the latch design, and it's just inviting human error.

i also dont want to entertain the idea that there's some fundamental fault in the design of the mating contacts themselves, you can have the most perfect connector ever conceived of, if the mechanism to hold it in place fails quite consistently it is actual hot garbage.

 

I agree,

 

While I don't own a card with a 12pin power connector, I've always felt that it was poorly designed (based on what I saw and read) and not ready for prime-time. Jayztwocents did a good video basically showing that if you as much as blow on it (note: he didn't do this, I'm just exaggerating the point a little), it will come loose. I've always been disappointed that it was being blamed on user error, rather than it being a design flaw (which it is IMHO). The locking mechanism is too small for the size of the connector and does not have great holding power. In addition maybe the connector also needs a bit more friction to get it in so it doesn't easily come loose like it does currently.

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9 minutes ago, TempestCatto said:

Why did we ever switch away from PCIe 8 Pin? I mean seriously, it worked!

To not need to have 3-4 of those on the GPU.  Nevermind that most GPU's connect using an octopus of 8 pin connectors. 

 

16 minutes ago, manikyath said:

hasnt asus been developing this since before the 12-pin was even conceived of?

Possibly ... but it not having the same issue is a plus. 

 

16 minutes ago, manikyath said:

also, card edge connectors are not all that great for power transfer when compared to a good pin and socket connection. the surface area on a card edge connector is very small relative to the connector size, where a good pin and socket connection gets a LOT of surface area. also, asus's card edge connector still has a pin and socket connection on the back of the board.. it's not a solution, it's adding more problems.

I am thinking/hoping that as part of their non-standard solution, they solved this problem. 

16 minutes ago, manikyath said:

 

from what i've been able to work out owning a GTX 4070 super with a 12-pin, at least part of the issue is that this connector does not "click" in well at all. i've had mine actually pop out of the card after inspecting it VERY close to make sure it was seated all the way and latched in.. imagine my surprise when i go to close my side panel and see the fudging connector has fallen out.

I know right.  A good connector should be, in most cases for consumer DIY hard to plug in and even harder to unplug by accident.  That might annoy reviewers but the truth is for 99.9999999% of computers this is a one and done issue.  You get the card, install the card and enjoy.  I'd not mind if it took a screwdriver to tighten it down.   That would beat the possibility of fire. 

 

16 minutes ago, manikyath said:

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I don't know if anyone realizes, the btf board still uses the 12v-2x6

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I've said this before and I will say it again: if AMD had switched to a new power connector standard that melted/caught fire, it would have been a meme and cited as a reason not to buy AMD cards for the next 10+ years.

 

Nvidia blamed users for the problem and got away with it pretty much scot-free from a reputational standpoint.

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34 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

I don't know if anyone realizes, the btf board still uses the 12v-2x6

I know that. It's how the power gets into the mother board that's obvious right.  But think on this for a second. GPU power connectors are usually in a place where a side panel will impact them.  That panel will, over time, be impacted by things that bump into the case.  The 12VHPWR connection it turns out was just shaky enough, enough of the time, that if it wasn't perfectly connected , by such a bump, it would melt.  

Consider where motherboard power is.  Deeper inside the computer less likely to be disturbed.  At worst facing the case panel close to the back of the motherboard which is not taken off much once the computer is assembled.   I'd also be willing to wager that the connection that Asus has for that 12V connector is somehow more robust than the standard demands.  I know they sold less of them so there would be fewer instances of melting for that reason.... but does anyone know of one instance of that connector, either the BTF connector or the 12VHPWR ASUS BTF motherboard melting? 

 

The absence of data isn't data but it is interesting that those don't seem to have melted down to well known degree. 

 

10 minutes ago, Middcore said:

I've said this before and I will say it again: if AMD had switched to a new power connector standard that melted/caught fire, it would have been a meme and cited as a reason not to buy AMD cards for the next 10+ years.

 

Nvidia blamed users for the problem and got away with it pretty much scot-free from a reputational standpoint.

Same for Intel.   Nvidia just gives everything one wants out of a GPU and everyone else plays catch up.  At least if ones priority is gaming.  For just about anything else Nvidia can kick rocks.  I just want AMD to give the desktop an Nvidia killing APU already.  Give us a PS5 on a chip and 98% of us are good to go. 

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1 hour ago, Uttamattamakin said:

Electrical engineering types did try to correct that.  All I ever took issue with was how some folks would act as if basic physics didn't dictate that there  was an issue that had to be considered more carefully.   Insisting it wasn't a fundamental physical issue but "user error".  That I was just "theorycrafting" as some would say it I'd say "theorizing" based on known establish laws of physics... that's neither here nor there.  The data is in  12vHPWR was garbage from the start.

The issue was not the amount of power/current going through the connector. The issue was that the design made it too easy to accidentally not insert it fully, and that it was too easy for it to come loose.

 

 

In terms of current rating, it's fine for a 450W card like the 4090. The current rating for Micro-Fit+ with dual row, wire to board connections, with tinned copper wire and tin plated terminals, a circuit size of 12, and 16 AWG wires is 9.00A per pin. At 12V, that's 648W, so it should absolutely not have had issues at just 450W (less than 70% of rated current).

https://www.molex.com/content/dam/molex/molex-dot-com/products/automated/en-us/productspecificationpdf/206/206460/2064600000-PS-000.pdf?inline

 

12V 2x6 connector is rated for 9.2A, or 662.4W at 12V.

https://www.molex.com/content/dam/molex/molex-dot-com/products/automated/en-us/productspecificationpdf/219/219116/2191160001-PS-000.pdf?inline

 

For comparison, Mini-Fit Jr. (not Plus HCS) with a wire to board connection, and a circuit size of 8 and 18 AWG is at least 6A per pin, or 216W at 12V. The rating for an 8 pin PCIe connector is 150W, or just under 70% of the rated current (exactly the same fraction as 450W through the Micro-Fit+ above).

https://tools.molex.com/pdm_docs/ps/PS-5556-001-001.pdf

 

(Of course PSUs from reputable brands these days use Mini-Fit Plus HCS and 16 AWG wires, so the rating is 10A per pin, 360W, which gives a bunch more margin.

https://www.molex.com/content/dam/molex/molex-dot-com/products/automated/en-us/productspecificationpdf/457/45750/PS-45750-001-001.pdf?inline

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Now, with the 5090 being a 575W card, that's where things will get a bit sketchier, with way less margin (575W vs 662.4W, 87%). The current ratings are all based on a 30°C temperature rise above ambient. If an even higher temperature increase is allowed, if they have better cooling of the connector etc, they could give themselves an additional bit more headroom to play with, and in theory this should still be fine, but it's a fair bit closer to the actual rating of the connector than it's been before (excluding whatever AMD did with the R9 295X2 pulilng 500W through two 8 pin PCIe connectors).

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1 hour ago, seon123 said:

The issue was not the amount of power/current going through the connector. The issue was that the design made it too easy to accidentally not insert it fully, and that it was too easy for it to come loose.

 

 

You are misunderstanding my point about the sheer amount of understanding.  I stipulate to every detail you said in the below.  

Do you understand that I agree that if the 12VHPWR connector was inserted correctly and was secure enough it would work fine?  

Do you understand that due to the amount of power going through it IF anything at all goes wrong with  it it will go VERY wrong as in melting which is what did happen.  What will always happen.  Meanwhile if the current was lower, or really the current density was lower by having a larger connector something more robust that it would lead to less heat production and less probability of melting or worse. 

 

Besides the data is in.  Think me a fool but surely you have to respect Der Bauer.

 

1 hour ago, seon123 said:

Snip. 

I stipulate to everything you said but also claim that it misses my point. I hope my post above makes it clearer.  I think part of the disconnect between me a physicist and a more EE minded person is that to me "currents" and current density are more abstract and general and I speak of them in different terms than you.    That is my limitation yet the conclusion considering things this was lead me to was born out.  

So let me try this.  When you have a lot of current in a wire what you have is a lot of electrons - charges that repel each other passing through a connection every second.  Those - charges all really don't like being in the same place and try really hard to break out.  When they do, through a bad connection with bad contact it releases heat.  Sure it works great when it works but when it does not work it goes horribly wrong. 

Now where is my Nobel prize for this prediction? (Sarcasm).  As long as we channel more power into small spaces to make our computers go BRRRRR heat and melting and even fire will be possible. 

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3 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

I don't know if anyone realizes, the btf board still uses the 12v-2x6

I'm getting a sense of deja vu. OP posted more or less the same topic back in 2023 when Asus first showed those motherboards at Computex 2023, making the same irrelevant arguments about 12VHPWR. I pointed out the same thing back then.

Since this is just a repeat of the 2023 thread I'm just going to repeat my post from there.

 

On 7/24/2023 at 3:10 PM, Spotty said:

How is this supposed to solve that when the same connector is still used? 

 

How do you think you get power from the power supply to the motherboard?

 

It uses a 12vhpwr connector on the back of the motherboard. Because this has nothing to do with removing power cables. It's about hiding them.

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5 hours ago, Uttamattamakin said:

I know that. It's how the power gets into the mother board that's obvious right.  But think on this for a second. GPU power connectors are usually in a place where a side panel will impact them.  That panel will, over time, be impacted by things that bump into the case.  The 12VHPWR connection it turns out was just shaky enough, enough of the time, that if it wasn't perfectly connected , by such a bump, it would melt.  

Consider where motherboard power is.  Deeper inside the computer less likely to be disturbed.  At worst facing the case panel close to the back of the motherboard which is not taken off much once the computer is assembled.   I'd also be willing to wager that the connection that Asus has for that 12V connector is somehow more robust than the standard demands.  I know they sold less of them so there would be fewer instances of melting for that reason.... but does anyone know of one instance of that connector, either the BTF connector or the 12VHPWR ASUS BTF motherboard melting? 

 

The absence of data isn't data but it is interesting that those don't seem to have melted down to well known degree. 

Having it on the GPU or behind the board don't really matter when it's not plugged in properly, and it start to get loose by itself over time. With standard setup you fried your GPU, with Asus BTF, you fried your motherboard. It's also inconvenient, especially when it comes to trouble shooting, cause now you'll need to have both panels opened, instead of just 1.

Best position for the 12V-2x6 is at the back edge of the card, like those made for servers and workstations.

 

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7 hours ago, Uttamattamakin said:

I am thinking/hoping that as part of their non-standard solution, they solved this problem

their goal is to sell you a proprietary motherboard with their proprietary GPU, using the excuse of looks. i'd be blown away if they even bother with a custom cardedge connector designed for high current draw.

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14 hours ago, Spotty said:

I'm getting a sense of deja vu. OP posted more or less the same topic back in 2023 when Asus first showed those motherboards at Computex 2023, making the same irrelevant arguments about 12VHPWR. I pointed out the same thing back then.

Since this is just a repeat of the 2023 thread I'm just going to repeat my post from there.

 

I guess I didn't express myself correctly so you can see how it is relevant.  The long term results bore out my concerns.  🙂 
 

@manikyath Well yeah but it is interesting that despite my looking I haven't found an example of the connector melting there, either on the supposedly standard connector on the motherboard, or the non-standard one either.  ASUS seems to have figured out a better mousetrap. 

 

11 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

Having it on the GPU or behind the board don't really matter when it's not plugged in properly, and it start to get loose by itself over time. With standard setup you fried your GPU, with Asus BTF, you fried your motherboard. It's also inconvenient, especially when it comes to trouble shooting, cause now you'll need to have ....

 

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Again I stipulate to everything you have said.  You said it in Electrical Engineering speak, and I said it in more general physics terms.  IT is a general principle that when a lot of current goes through a small channel, when you have a lot of energy packed into a small volume things heat up.  This connector melting issue is fundamental to how things work and totally predictable.  As long as we insist on having one cable carry all the power this can be a problem.   

 

IT has to be done perfectly or not at all. 

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At this point, they should just put a C14 on the GPU so we can plug it straight into the wall.

I sold my soul for ProSupport.

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16 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

At this point, they should just put a C14 on the GPU so we can plug it straight into the wall.

I know right.  That or maybe a chunky barrel plug with an external power brick just for the GPU.  (That .. actually sounds kinda reasonable). 

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3 hours ago, Uttamattamakin said:

 

@manikyath Well yeah but it is interesting that despite my looking I haven't found an example of the connector melting there, either on the supposedly standard connector on the motherboard, or the non-standard one either.  ASUS seems to have figured out a better mousetrap. 

the problem with the 12-pin is that it just loves to unlatch itself, and on most GPU's it's just in a position that's very conducive to the sort of bumps that would make it unlatch.

 

also, i just want to note.. saying you havent seen any of them go up in smoke and therefore it must be better.. is utterly meaningless when we're talking literally a douzen cards at most.

 

my dayjob is batteries, mostly bikes but the occasional power tool and electric surfboard comes trough as well.. even the 12 pin connector is fairly "safe" compared to this shyte i encounter...

last week i made it a point of personal pride to rewire an entire f*cking battery because the original manufacturer thought it was a good idea to run 60A "peaks" (given the wrong conditions, over a minute) trough a single 16AWG wire.

 

3 hours ago, Uttamattamakin said:

I know right.  That or maybe a chunky barrel plug with an external power brick just for the GPU.  (That .. actually sounds kinda reasonable). 

if we're gonna put power sockets on GPU's, can we at least use these? they're like really cool, they look like a computer plug, they have screws to lock them in place, and they can take a serious beating.

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actually.. why do internal power connectors have to latch anyways? we're bolting everything into place, why dont we have thumbscrew power connectors?

 

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3 minutes ago, porina said:

RS-232-HPWR?

it's actually the size of gameport.. which is an oddly suitable name.

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5 minutes ago, manikyath said:

it's actually the size of gameport.. which is an oddly suitable name.

Thought it looked a bit wider, but the way the pins looked I assumed 9 as opposed 15. Gameport-HPWR doesn't have the same ring to it! 😄 

Gaming system: R7 7800X3D, Asus ROG Strix B650E-F Gaming Wifi, Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE ARGB, Corsair Vengeance 2x 32GB 6000C30, RTX 4070, MSI MPG A850G, Fractal Design North, Samsung 990 Pro 2TB, Alienware AW3225QF (32" 240 Hz OLED)
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2 minutes ago, porina said:

Thought it looked a bit wider, but the way the pins looked I assumed 9 as opposed 15. Gameport-HPWR doesn't have the same ring to it! 😄 

nvidia RTX GamePower AI deep learning super melty.

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Does BTF stand for "Built To Fail"? 

Given my experience with Asus products, I'd say so

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TBH at this point they should just add a pair of screw terminals because these pissant connectors wont be able to handle the asinine amounts of current the "GPU's require............ 🙄

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5 hours ago, manikyath said:

 

if we're gonna put power sockets on GPU's, can we at least use these? they're like really cool, they look like a computer plug, they have screws to lock them in place, and they can take a serious beating.

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actually.. why do internal power connectors have to latch anyways? we're bolting everything into place, why dont we have thumbscrew power connectors?

 

Plus with screws being part of the equation, they can't slip out of place. I don't see why not.  GPU's are starting to become such a, literally, big part of the computer this might just make sense. 

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