Some MSI 800-series motherboards could include the addition of an 8-pin power connector capable of delivering up to 150 Watts. The added power combined with that from the PCIe slot would bring ...

If you add another 150W from an 8-pin connector, you're looking at 225W from the motherboard alone. Now if you add up to 600W from a 12V-2x6 or 12VHPWR connector, the math suggests 800W or more is ...

The 8-pin PCIe power connector is located strategically at the bottom of MSI's new motherboards. It is an optimal place, as it positions it very close to the PCIe slots and makes it easy for ...

In conclusion, then, 8-pin connector: a good thing. It's a tangible indicator of the 10-series' efficiency, which should keep your current PSU in the game for a few years yet.

An image of an upcoming Inno3D GeForce RTX 4070 GPU has surfaced, and it looks to confirm that RTX 4070 GPUs will use of 8-pin power connectors.

We are starting to see some Quadro RTX A6000 leaks, the latest of which is a photo that shows it having an 8-pin power connector. Skip to content.

I just installed a Tyan server motherboard and I'm using an Antec Smart Power 2.0 PSU for it. The motherboard requires an 8 port power supply connection and there isn't one on the power supply ...

In systems with limited power and cooling, such as Mini PCs, using the GeForce RTX 5090 with three 8-pin power cables is a practical solution. By adjusting the power consumption setting in the ...

The new 12-pin connector has smaller pins than the normal 8-pin PCIe power connectors, is slightly longer -- but much thinner, and there's only one of them versus 2-3 x required on other graphics ...

Launch end of January AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 will not have a 12V-2×6 connector and will stick to the older 8-pin connectors. Videocardz claims that while the rumour is that AMD refuses ...

While AMD did not intend to use the new power connector on the 7900 and 7600 series GPUs, they actually had plans to use it on the 7800 and 7700. “We removed it, and that was a purposeful removal.