TL;DR: The GeForce RTX 5090, with a 600W TGP, is the most power-intensive gaming GPU, leading to reports of melted power cables. A recent case involves the RTX 5070, where a damaged pin on the 12V-2x6 ...

Anyone familiar with computer components knows what the GPU is, but for clarity, the GPU is the Graphics Processing Unit. Where our GPU melting terror began is the ...

The “War on Cables” trend rages on and Asus is on the front lines. In 2023 and 2024, Asus eagerly embraced the trend with “BTF” motherboards and cases designed to stealthily hide cables around the ...

A few months ago, we covered the first reported case of a 16-pin power connector meltdown for AMD's RX 9070 XT. Usually, it's Nvidia's RTX 4090 and 5090s that face the fire, but Sapphire has adopted ...

Asus has just unveiled a new graphics card connector that does away with the power cables and sockets of conventional cards, and instead relies on a motherboard slot to deliver power, able to deliver ...

After several weeks of leaks and teasers of MSI’s upcoming X870 motherboards, the company officially announced its next-generation AM5 motherboards, which are compliant with the ATX 3.1 standard. MSI ...

MSI has unveiled a new lineup of X870 and X870E AMD motherboard options, which include an extra eight-pin PCIe power connector on the board, boosting the overall ability of the board to power your GPU ...

Forward-looking: As cases of burning and melting RTX 5090 power cables continue to mount, Asus has demonstrated that its new Back to the Future (BTF) power connector design can maintain safe ...

Thermal Grizzly has launched its innovative WireView Pro GPU device, which we first saw at Computex 2024. This device protects your graphics card from potential damage by measuring and monitoring ...

Gigabyte is bringing back its stealth GPU design to augment its new AMD 800-series Aorus Stealth motherboards with hidden connectors and ports. The RTX 5090 has no top-mounted 12V-2x6 connector. It's ...