connector
- News
200 RTX 4090 Units Repaired Monthly Due to Connector Failures
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090, known for its high performance, continues to face issues with melting power connectors, despite numerous reports and replacements. Repair shops like NorthridgeFix are still seeing up to 200 damaged connectors each month. This problem persists even after Nvidia upgraded the connector design. What’s the Issue…
Read More » - News
PCIe Gen5 Graphics Card Power Connector Revealed!
While the 6/8-pin power connector has become pretty the standard for graphics cards over the last 8 years, the system has definitely started to run into some limitations. Largely, the fact that each cable can only provide a maximum of around 150 watts of power. With the (rumoured) upcoming release…
Read More » - News
Does The AMD Radeon Fury X Radiator Feature a Built-in Pump?
The AMD Radeon Fury X looks set to be a truly amazing graphics card and details just keep cropping up out of the blue. We first saw it on 3D Mark Fire Strike and everyone just went crazy. Soon after, the rumoured GPU was officially confirmed and we even came…
Read More » - News
Images of Late Soviet Union Computer Mouse Surface, Would Have Cost $300 in 1990
It looks like someone has stumbled upon a rare late Soviet computer mouse. The device is said to have been produced in 1990, but was modelled in 1989, as the documents state. The design is very weird and it comes in red colour (as it would be expected from that…
Read More » 
- News
Philips Announces New iOS Lightening Port Headphones
Philips has announced a new set of headphones that utilise the ‘Lightening’ connector only used by Apple on iOS devices. The headphones bypass the conventional headphone jack to provide advanced noise-cancellation using “inverted microphones”. The Fidelio NC1L does noise-cancellation in pretty much the same way as many other headphones, but…
Read More » - News
New USB Type-C Connector and USB 3.1 Tested
Four weeks ago we told you all about USB’s plans to release their new C-Type connector which will see USB speeds increased thanks to USB 3.1, along with the ability to reverse the plug. We’re sure most of you are aware of the saying “50% chance to get it right, get…
Read More » - News
New USB Technology Means Reversible Port
50% chance to get it right, get it wrong 100% of the time. How often to do go to blindly plug-in your USB device and try to force it in the wrong way? If this happens to you too, your cries for help have been answered. The USB 3.0 promoter…
Read More » - News
First Images of NVIDIA’s GeForce GT 740 Revealed, Confirmed to be Entry-Level GPUs
NVIDIA has announced the GeForce GT 740 since Q2 2013, but now word about the latter has been heard so far. That is until now, having the first pic of two model GeForce 740 released by EXPReview.com (via WCCFTech). From the image at hand, it is clearly visible that the…
Read More » -
- News
3rd Gen Intel Thunderbolt Leaked, Supports 40Gb’s Transfers
A new leak has surfaced, giving details from the upcoming Intel 3rd generation Thunderbolt technology, suggesting it will offer up the fastest ever speeds from the technology, a staggering 40Gb per second! This makes the new standard twice as fast as the current Thunderbolt 2 technology and as you can see…
Read More »
