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.

NZXT has rolled out a new family of desktop power supplies called the C Series Gold Core, designed for today’s gaming PCs and workstations. The lineup includes three models—the C750 Gold Core, C850 ...

This is a guest post by GeekWife/Mom and Teacher, Travlyn Russell. In the midst of a the largest budget crisis in California since the 1970's, when most teachers are facing cuts in supplies and ...

Forward-looking: As cases of burning and melting RTX 5090 power cables continue to mount, Asus has demonstrated that its new Back to the Future (BTF) power connector design can maintain safe ...

The new photo is thanks to Andreas Schilling, who tweeted it out earlier today with a comparison against 2 x 8-pin PCIe power connectors. You can see that the new 12-pin PCIe power connector isn't ...

I’m a big proponent of DIY PC building and I tend to describe it as “relatively straightforward.” For the most part, everything just plugs in where it should. But there is one aspect of putting ...