New PSUs Should Save Your GPUs
Hardware from Thermaltake and MSI meets the ATX 3.1 and PCIe 5.1 standards and can prevent melting connectors.
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We're moving on with CES 2024, a conference full of tech points of interest, and one of them is the new PSUs that can potentially save your PC's connectors from melting.
Thermaltake and MSI presented their power supplies that meet the new ATX 3.1 and PCIe 5.1 standards, and this is the core of what should make your PC more stable. As reported by HWBusters, the new 12V-2×6 power connector has longer pins and shorter sideband pins so "the sideband pins engage only after the power pins are sufficiently mated."
"So when the graphics card “sees” both SENSE pins are open, its power state is zero, and it cannot draw any power to avoid any connector “melting” issues."
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"Like 12VHPWR, the 12V-2×6 power connector has been designed to deliver up to 600W of 12V power to the PCIe Add-in card. This connector has twelve power pins with 3.0mm spacing and four smaller contact pins carrying the sideband signals.
"The twelve power pins have a 9.2A per pin/position current rating at 30C T-rise above ambient temperature conditions at 12V, energizing all twelve contacts. This means that the pins should be able to deliver up to 1324.8W!"
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But let's go back to PSUs. MSI's MAG A1250GL PCIE5 and Thermaltake's Toughpower SFX Platinum can handle the heat with their PCIe 5.1 and ATX 3.1 support. Moreover, the new Toughpower SFX PSUs are smaller than their predecessor, according to PC Gamer.
You can find a little "H++" sign on MSI's connectors, which means compatibility with the new standards. As mentioned by HWBusters, "the connector’s body must have a label or embossed 'H++' characters to indicate the support of 9.2A per pin or higher."
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