The incendiary woes of the 16-pin power connector keep birthing new ways to prevent the inevitable. MSI's latest attempt is ...

If you're reading this site, you probably are well familiar with the controversy over the 12VHPWR connector used on NVIDIA's recent graphics cards. This connector is a smaller-scale twelve-pin plug ...

Asus has just unveiled a new graphics card connector that does away with the power cables and sockets of conventional cards, and instead relies on a motherboard slot to deliver power, able to deliver ...

Why it matters: Nvidia's melting 12VHPWR power connectors are still out there, although a wave of media coverage last year has increased awareness of the dangers posed by improper contact or bending ...

Tested over at Hardware Busters. In both scenarios, Hardware Busters found that the new 12V-2x6 connector had no problems outputting the full 660W of power, with thermal readings that were well below ...

Between the “melting” issues of the 12VHPWR connector for PCIe 5.0 graphics cards, and the recent “war on cables” push for eliminating or hiding connections to a PC’s power supply, we’ve seen a lot of ...

AMD has just joined Nvidia in the unenviable club of graphics cards with burned power connectors, with reports that an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card's power socket has melted under load. While ...

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 ...

It is the bane of worldwide travel: there isn’t just one way to get AC power from the wall. The exact connector — and what you can expect when you plug in — differs from country to country. Even if ...

Adding to its popular line of molded IEC 60320 appliance and interconnection couplers, Interpower announces the launch of its ...

Video footage shows an RTX 4090 smoking inside a running PC, raising new questions about power adapters and GPU reliability.