Asus has just unveiled a new graphics card connector that does away with the power cables and sockets of conventional cards, and instead relies on a motherboard slot to deliver power, able to deliver ...

ASUS has a rather radical solution for the ill-fated 12VHPWR connector: ditch it instead of fixing it. A new BTF standard replaces 12VHPWR and cumbersome cable management for a 600W PCIe connector. At ...

What just happened? Asus has showcased a concept RTX 4070 graphics card that doesn't use any 16-pin (12VHPWR) or 8-pin power connector. Instead, the card draws up to 600W of power from a proprietary ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. ASUS has expanded its BTF hidden cable ecosystem at Computex 2025 with new motherboards and graphics cards. What's most interesting is the reveal of a ...

Between the “melting” issues of the 12VHPWR connector for PCIe 5.0 graphics cards, and the recent “war on cables” push for eliminating or hiding connections to a PC’s power supply, we’ve seen a lot of ...

We may be smack-dab in the middle of a huge new controversy surrounding Nvidia’s flagship-level GPUs: both the RTX 5000 and the RTX 4000 series cards. In what seems like a growing number of cases, ...

Ever since the launch of the RTX 4090, there has been a steady stream of reports of high-end Nvidia GPUs melting the power cables that connect to them. Nvidia initially tried to solve the issue with a ...

Normally I'd suggest burning such things to the ground but they're doing that themselves.

Asus and its partners Thermaltake and Silverstone are working on a new standard for PC components and design called the BTF Alliance. One of the key goals of the BTF Alliance is to eliminate or hide ...