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NVIDIA RTX 50-series "Blackwell" to Debut 16-pin PCIe Gen 6 Power Connector Standard

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Lycanwolfen said:
LOL and the people telling me SLI used too much power, Ha Ha Ha, It's starting to look like the Voodoo 5 6000 all over again when you need a power supply for the video card and another one for the computer. Honestly just make it 3 connections with the 6 Pin PCI-E. Would be a much better way 3 way load on power supply and card instead of one connector which get's very hot and melts sometimes. Balance load over 3 PCI-E connectors would be less heat and less prone to failing.
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Ahmmm, NO.
 
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dgianstefani said:
Progress takes revision sometimes.

How many variants of form factor/connector did we use before settling on ATX, or USB, for example.

Besides, as people miss, this isn't NVIDIA making these connectors, it's PCI-SIG or other standardization consortiums.
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Not like this, as for the examples you gave they were successive iterations not do overs because the previous attempt missed the mark.
 
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P4-630 said:
I won't be upgrading my GPU and PSU until GTA 6 is out for PC, so I'll see what connector we have then....Hopefully it's something better than there is now...
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By the time GTA6 drops we'll probably be on the wireless standard with PCIe power delivery connection :roll:
 
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hahaha, I think it funny to see if there will be some people use two adapters for their brand new 50 series card
 
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ChaoYYang0123 said:
hahaha, I think it funny to see if there will be some people use two adapters for their brand new 50 series card
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Preferably 2 or 3-8 pins....
 
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P4-630 said:
Preferably 2 or 3-8 pins....
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4x 8-pins for 600W and officially it could go up to 1200W if they are high quality cables since 8-pins PCIe cables are rated at 150W but can actually work fine with up to 300W (der8auer tested the cables).
 
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