US EditionForget Plastic, ASUS RTX 5090 BTF Metal Connector Survives 1900W Torture Test
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News from HD Technology. Visit www.hd-tecnologia.com for the latest news. In an extreme test conducted by Tony Yu, general manager of ASUS China, the GeForce RTX 5090 BTF not only showed its incredible power consumption capacity, but also tested the new GC-HPWR power connector, owned by ASUS, which managed to stay stable even with more than 1,900W of load. All this without suffering the familiar thermal problems of the controversial 16-pin conne…
Forget Plastic, ASUS RTX 5090 BTF Metal Connector Survives 1900W Torture Test
If you're reading this site, chances are high that you're familiar with the saga of melting power connectors on modern high-end NVIDIA GPUs. We've already written very extensively about this problem, but what if you could entirely avoid it along with the annoyance of having to plug in a power cable to your GPU? That's the promise of ASUS'
That the PCI-SIG and NVIDIA have designed a connector that is proving fateful for the hardware of the greens, as has been the 12HVPWR and the most advanced 12V-2x6, is not something that is surprising. What is surprising, and much, is the stubbornness of both to maintain it and not to provide a solution with a new standard for the graphics, so that AMD and Intel join the equation and let’s take a step forward. As no one agrees to do so, for what…
We were talking about it at the recent Computex, ASUS is continuing the development of its BTF standard (for back to the future), which is now in version 2.5, the idea is to provide an alternative to the external connector, often unsightly graphics cards, with an additional slot, dedicated only to power supply, on the motherboard, the PCB of the graphics card then carries an additional notch, while retaining the 12 VHPWR connector, ASUS does not…
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