Common wisdom on the internet proclaims you must use two separate power cables when attaching two 6- or 8-pin power connectors to a graphics card. According to some, using just one cable is a danger.

TL;DR: NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card is extremely power-hungry, featuring prototypes with 4 x 16-pin power connectors and up to 2400W power delivery. These prototypes, including the AD102 ...

The compact 12-pin design is only slightly larger than current 8-pin Molex connectors. Graphics cards have become increasingly hungry for power, to the point where a single 8-pin Molex power connector ...

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 graphics cards are reportedly set to stick with eight-pin power connectors, rather than use the company's new 12VHPWR connector, suggests a new leak. This would ...

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards were the first mainstream products to feature the 16-pin power connector. However, Nvidia might not stick to this format for the upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 ...

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TL;DR: The first report of a melting 12VHPWR connector on an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT highlights risks associated with using underpowered PSUs and potential user error ...

High performance PC builder Falcon Northwest has taken to X to say that it has tested "many" RTX 5090 FE cards, but has been unable to repeat der8auer's findings. Falcon Northwest's thermal images ...

One of my favourite trends in gaming hardware of late is new ways of tucking away all those cables for a sleeker build. Now it looks like Gigabyte's joining the party with its own method for ...

Graphics cards have become increasingly hungry for power, to the point where a single 8-pin Molex power connector doesn't cut it anymore, and in some cases three are required. But it looks like we're ...