I am helping a friend put together a gaming rig. The board is an EPoX EP-9NPA+Ultra. The cpu is AMD64 3200+. The board has a 24-pin atx connector. The power supply has a 20-pin connector and then a ...

On page 4, there is an "IDE Power" connector. It looks a lot like a 4 pin CPU fan connector, but it (obviously) provides different voltages that are appropriate for 3.5" IDE drives (5V, 12V) and the ...

In the slightly-bowdlerized words of GTA San Andreas protagonist Carl Johnson, "Aw, crap. Here we go again." Virtually anyone reading this site will well remember the unfortunate failures of 12VHPWR ...

TL;DR: A leaked NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 prototype features an unprecedented 4 x 16-pin power connectors, enabling up to 2400W power consumption and doubled VRM sections. This engineering sample hints ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's RTX 5090 graphics card requires 4 x 8-pin connectors for 600W power officially, but can operate with 3 x 8-pin connectors at 450W, seemingly running only 5% slower in 4K benchmarks.

It's no secret that the latest graphics cards from AMD and especially Nvidia are power-hungry beasts, and all indications are the next-gen GPUs will be even hungrier. With rumors that both companies ...