Seasonic has just upgraded its GPU cables for some of its power supply units with upgraded H++ connectors that are compliant with the new PCIe Gen5 and ATX3 standards. The new 12V-2x6 power connectors ...

Why it matters: The 16-pin 12VHPWR power cables for Nvidia's recent graphics cards have been controversial since users began reporting melting adapter plugs late last year. The company quietly ...

Nvidia launched its Ampere line of GPUs with a novel design for power that ditched 8-pin PCIe cables in favor of a single, high-powered cable called 12VHPWR. Despite Nvidia introducing this technology ...

The 12VHPWR power cable issues strike again. The 12VHPWR power cable issues strike again. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...

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.

There's a new report about an Nvidia GeForce graphics card causing a power supply cable to melt, but this time it's not a high-end RTX 4090 or RTX 5090 GPU doing the damage but a much more modest RTX ...

Hold fire, everyone. Nvidia’s new RTX 50-series graphics cards are not melting power supply cables or causing fire hazards. Following early reports of flammable RTX 50s, Hong Kong's PCM lays the blame ...