Up to 225W from the board alone, with god knows how much extra from GPU mounted connectors. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. MSI ...

The motherboard takes a full-size 24-pin ATX power link from the power supply, which handles most functions on the PC. Still, there's also a dedicated central processing unit (CPU) connection, usually ...

Building a PC isn’t easy for everyone, but if you’re someone who’s planning on doing it soon or just a PC enthusiast who’s passionate about PCMR, then this is the perfect blog for you. In this column, ...

TE Connectivity (TE) introduces new wire-to-board headers as part of its Power Triple Lock connector product line; thereby expanding the family of connectors targeting appliances into a growing number ...

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards were the first mainstream products to feature the 16-pin power connector. However, Nvidia might not stick to this format for the upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's RTX 5090 graphics card requires 4 x 8-pin connectors for 600W power officially, but can operate with 3 x 8-pin connectors at 450W, seemingly running only 5% slower in 4K benchmarks.

On page 4, there is an "IDE Power" connector. It looks a lot like a 4 pin CPU fan connector, but it (obviously) provides different voltages that are appropriate for 3.5" IDE drives (5V, 12V) and the ...

Parallel ATA (IDE) uses 40 pins, not 26. 26 was for floppies. But it's a standard 40-pin "header" connector. Sometimes called "IDC". CF cards have the PATA interface on a 50-pin connector. I don't ...