Can I wire two 12v atx connector together to get 24v? or the 12v and the 5v for 17v? I have a small amp board that I want to power with it. It's technically possible, but a really bad idea if you ...

In the slightly-bowdlerized words of GTA San Andreas protagonist Carl Johnson, "Aw, crap. Here we go again." Virtually anyone reading this site will well remember the unfortunate failures of 12VHPWR ...

The debut of the new 12VHPWR power connector with the arrival of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 Series wasn't smooth. With widespread reports of cables 'melting,' it led to a redesign with the newer and ...

Don't worry, this isn't yet another tale about melting 12V-2x6 GPU power connectors—although it could have been, if the subject of today's story had decided to follow the advice of his power supply ...

High-performance connectors like 12V-2×6, sometimes called 12VHPWR, deliver significant current to advanced graphics cards such as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition. Each connector pin ...

Bending the motherboard power cable around to plug it in, one wire popped out of the connector. I think I could reconnect the wire inside the connector, but: which one? All four pins have a wire, so I ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card has experienced its first reported melted 16-pin power connector issue, similar to the RTX 5090. A Redditor using an ASUS ROG Loki PSU ...