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 ...

Building a PC isn’t easy for everyone, but if you’re someone who’s planning on doing it soon or just a PC enthusiast who’s passionate about PCMR, then this is the perfect blog for you. In this column, ...

Intel is currently working on a design update for the male connector of the 12+4 pin ATX 12VHPWR power connector. This redesign aims to enhance the connection and retention of the connector, while ...

The motherboard takes a full-size 24-pin ATX power link from the power supply, which handles most functions on the PC. Still, ...

GALAX has just revealed its new and monstrous Hall of Fame GH1300 power supply, which is a new ATX 3.0-ready power supply that feeds up to 1300W of power into whatever PC components you can throw at ...

Over the years to come there might be an interesting move in the power supply industry. Intel is hard at work on a new PSU standard, purely based on 12 Volts. That would mean a power supply with just ...

A customer of mine has a bad WinFast K7NCR18D-Pro. The power connector is 4 pins shorter than what I know as a regular ATX connector. This exact motherboard is no longer produced and I can't find ...

TL;DR: DIY-APE has introduced a 50-pin power cable concept capable of delivering 1500W directly to the motherboard, eliminating the need for separate power cables for the CPU, GPU, and other ...

The most important thing to keep in mind when operating the server yourself is the power supply. Even if applications and networks are running normally, it does not make sense to power down essential ...

PC power supplies haven’t seen a whole lot of change in the last decade or two. We’ve gotten modular cables for easier routing, smaller standards for itty-bitty builds, and that’s about it. But today ...

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