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A new 12-pin PCIe power adapter purportedly set to be used with the Nvidia Ampere generation graphics cards has been confirmed by a power supply manufacturer.
The green team seems to have just confirmed that Nvidia Ampere GeForce cards are going to be shipping 12-pin power adapters in the Founders Edition boxes.
GPU "Cable Gate" is an official thing now. This week a Redditor posted images of a melted 12-pin adapter cable on their Nvidia RTX 4090. The power plug on the PCB was also irreversibly damaged as ...
The triple 8-pin adapter shows just how much power the RTX 3090 T is going to draw. When the original 3090 shipped, it included a 12-pin to double 8-pin adapter.
After a couple of weeks of ignoring stories about 16-pin adapter meltdowns on the GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia’s PR team has finally answered one of the reporters who asked them what was going on ...
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At AMD's RX 7000 launch event, the company made a subtle dig at Nvidia's recent RTX 4090 power adapters.
It’s pretty similar to the old 12-pin connector, but it’s now a 16-pin connector. Luckily, Nvidia did include an adapter in the box — which also means messy cable management is here to stay.
At least three new reports of melting 16-pin adapters for Nvidia's flagship GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card appeared on Reddit this week. The complaints could signal something ...
NVIDIA has recently released their lineup of 40-series graphics cards, with a novel generation of power connectors called 12VHPWR. See, the previous-generation 8-pin connectors were no longer enoug… ...
The GeForce RTX 4090 includes an adapter that converts four legacy eight-pin power connectors to a single 12VHPWR, and those adapters have been melting down.