Monday, June 12th 2023
GIGABYTE RTX 4090 WindForce V2 Unveiled, with Unique Tail-ended Power Connector
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4090 WindForce V2 may not be the company's most premium RTX 4090 custom-design graphics card, but it has arguably the best power connector design. Almost every custom RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 comes with a design where in the PCB is half or two-thirds the length of the card, and the remainder of the length is dedicated to the cooling solution, where the heatsink can extend along the thickness of the card. In case of the RTX 4090 WindForce V2, this extended portion of the cooler is recessed by half, exposing the tail end of the PCB. The 16-pin 12VHPWR power input is pointed toward the tail-end, rather than toward the top of the card.
This makes cabling very convenient, as it no longer needs to bend nearly 180° as it emerges from the back of your motherboard tray. The power cable goes straight into the connector with no bending up to a roughly 8 cm length, before making a 90° turn to the back of your motherboard tray, reducing mechanical strain on the connector. Even the NVIDIA-designed adapter included with the card (the one that converts 4x 8-pin to a 12VHPWR), should look neater. It's likely that as a WindForce-series product, this card offers the lowest tier of factory overclocks by GIGABYTE. You still get dual-BIOS, which lets you toggle between this factory-OC, and a Silent BIOS that runs the card at reference speeds, with tighter fan tuning. The selling point, however, is its unique power connector design.
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harukaze5719 (Twitter), VideoCardz
This makes cabling very convenient, as it no longer needs to bend nearly 180° as it emerges from the back of your motherboard tray. The power cable goes straight into the connector with no bending up to a roughly 8 cm length, before making a 90° turn to the back of your motherboard tray, reducing mechanical strain on the connector. Even the NVIDIA-designed adapter included with the card (the one that converts 4x 8-pin to a 12VHPWR), should look neater. It's likely that as a WindForce-series product, this card offers the lowest tier of factory overclocks by GIGABYTE. You still get dual-BIOS, which lets you toggle between this factory-OC, and a Silent BIOS that runs the card at reference speeds, with tighter fan tuning. The selling point, however, is its unique power connector design.
53 Comments on GIGABYTE RTX 4090 WindForce V2 Unveiled, with Unique Tail-ended Power Connector
That's Awful...
Why not put the connector on an extension to make it end-mounted?
Props for trying, at least.
But can it run Crysis?But does it breaks again?I don't think it will be more hideous than normal cabling :/
www.techpowerup.com/309313/asus-shows-concept-geforce-rtx-4070-without-power-connector
It would be nice if it was standardised.Probably. The problem in my opinion, is not where the cables are, or how they look. The problem is that the third fan cools basically nothing. It's just there for the noise.
Edit: If they had cut the third fan completely, and put the power connector at the rear end of the card, it would have been a much better design, methinks.
IMO, leave the fin stack alone, or make the card shorter. This intermediate solution is the worst of both worlds.
Connectors not fully inserted, cards shipped with no support or not inserted properly, it's almost a given with prebuilds.
Unsurprising, his content is so bad, it's the way to get views.