Friday, May 31st 2024
ASRock Innovates First AMD Radeon RX 7000 Graphics Card with 12V-2x6 Power Connector
ASRock is ready with the first Radeon RX gaming graphics card to feature a modern 12V-2x6 power connector, replacing the up to three 8-pin PCIe power connectors it took, to power a Radeon RX 7900 series graphics card. The ASRock RX 7900 series WS graphics cards are also the first 2-slot RX 7900 series graphics cards. They target workstations and GPU rendering farms that stack multiple graphics cards into 4U or 5U rackmount cases, with no spacing between 2-slot graphics cards. ASRock is designing cards based on both the RX 7900 XT, and the flagship RX 7900 XTX.
The ASRock RX 7900 series WS graphics cards appear long and no more than 2 slots thick. To achieve these dimensions, a lateral-flow cooling solution is used, which combines a dense aluminium or copper channel heatsink with a lateral blower. Remember we said these cards are meant for workstations or rendering farms? So the noise output will be deafening, at least up to datacenter standards. The most striking aspect of these cards of course is their 12+4 pin ATX 12V-2x6 power input, which is capable of drawing 600 W of continuous power from a single cable. It's located at the card's tail-end, where it would have been an engineering challenge to put three 8-pin connectors.
The ASRock RX 7900 series WS graphics cards appear long and no more than 2 slots thick. To achieve these dimensions, a lateral-flow cooling solution is used, which combines a dense aluminium or copper channel heatsink with a lateral blower. Remember we said these cards are meant for workstations or rendering farms? So the noise output will be deafening, at least up to datacenter standards. The most striking aspect of these cards of course is their 12+4 pin ATX 12V-2x6 power input, which is capable of drawing 600 W of continuous power from a single cable. It's located at the card's tail-end, where it would have been an engineering challenge to put three 8-pin connectors.
94 Comments on ASRock Innovates First AMD Radeon RX 7000 Graphics Card with 12V-2x6 Power Connector
Perhaps another user can fill my intellectual void here.
Even if it's 0.001% it still sucks because it could have been avoided, stuff like this is enough to convince me this connector is still a problem cablemod.com/adapterrecall/.
It's a matter of convenience: new power supplies are expected to have this cable going forward which means having this connector on your 4070 is a desirable thing. There's no downside to it.2x6 has been revised. Here's Aris intentionally abusing it with 660W on a load tester with 55 amps of current while yanking and bending it.
This connector is safe. The rest is paranoia and FUD.
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there are no changes to the cable and it never burned PSU-side. Watch the video I shared, Aris shows precisely the problematic part of the socket... you should be more willing to learn with people that have more knowledge than you, man!
You can say it's within spec, everything else it's an opinion based on nothing but personal preferences.True otherwise there would have been a massive recall and the entire thing dropped (no one at pcisig or nvidia is as passionate about this as people on forums, if it was hurting their wallets it would be changed), but that there were 2 or 3 revisions in so little time tells that it's still pretty high and shouldn't have been released when it was.That's an interesting video but as someone else said, it doesn't say much about how the connector will behave when it gets mass produced, shipped, installed in boards, shipped again and then handled by
idiotusers. Even on it's own it doesn't tell much, yes 45ºC is nothing, but what about when that thing is put in a basement at 40ºC instead of the ~20º inside the lab and turned on for months? And that doesn't even account for the gpu heat, how will the plastics handle that long term.Can we blame the connector for that? Yes, yes we can, that's why safety margins, long term reliability and stress tests exist.You don't have to change your power supply, the connector is compatible with previous 8pin power supplies, just need to wire the sense pins to the correct places which bargain bin adapters will likely fail to do but reputable PSU manufacturers won't.
Oh and I bent it 90° very close to the connector, since I have a small case.
I did it the right way and placed the cable in a way so won't be pulled by its own weight.
I use that adapter for over a year now without problems.You can say its name: Molex. It is still used today.Well all cards below 216W use one 8-pin, cards above that would need at least 2x8-pins, use the 16-pin instead. It does make sense since it is the least amount of cables.
That said the last floppy dive I installed was approx 20-25 years ago...
Live long and prosper.