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 ...

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.

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.

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.

MSI says the standard 24-pin power connector we all know and love can provide 168W to the entire system, which might not be enough for someone with RGB lighting, fans, lots of storage devices, and ...

Interestingly, MSI is putting out several custom models of the RTX 5060 Ti, and they’ve decided to include a 16-pin power connector. For a card with a 180W power draw, this feels like overkill ...

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 ...

If a real Arc card comes with 450W of PCIe connector power plus another 75W via the slot, then we could be looking at a hot and power-hungry card, even if it doesn’t use all of the available 525W.

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.