Modern graphics cards are intimidating, hulking beasts in a world of increasingly tiny PC components. Most of them are double-wide, occupying two expansion-slot spaces, even though they use only a ...

One interesting outcome from these rumours is that they appear to have unearthed a new kind of graphics card power connector (via Igor's Lab).The PCIe 5.0 power connector is designed to solve one ...

This new Asus graphics card connector can supply 1,000W of power with no cable. Asus GC-HPWR connector draws power through a motherboard slot for cableless power, but still makes gaming GPUs ...

Graphics Card High-Power (GC-HPWR), a finger connector that ASUS introduced as part of its BTF (Back-to-The-Future) ecosystem to power GPUs without the need for traditional cabling (e.g., 6/8-pin ...

Our card has two 6 pin connectors, so with the PCI Express expansion slot, it can take up 75 + ... Go back to near the start of this article and look again at that ATi 3D Charger graphics card.

Power connectors: You would not want to buy a graphics card that asks for power connectors that your PSU doesn't have. These connectors vary among card tiers, but they often come in 6-pin or 8-pin ...

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.

Graphics cards have become increasingly hungry for power, to the point where a single 8-pin Molex power connector doesn't cut it anymore, and in some cases three are required. But it looks like we ...