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Thermaltake Smart BM3 850W Semi-Modular Power Supply Review
We love ultra-high-end hardware here at eTeknix, but at the same time, I’m fully aware that that isn’t what everyone really needs, nor does everyone want to pay the price for it either. While the Smart BM3 isn’t the most exciting power supply in the world, albeit even the best…
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Baseus Launches The Ultra-Thin Blade 100W 20000mAh Power Bank
Consumer electronics brand Baseus has today launched their new ultra-thin Blade Series laptop battery pack boasting 100W fast charging and a 20,000mAh capacity. Baseus Blade Series Power Bank The Baseus Blade power bank is designed for laptops and acts as a backup for those who work on the go and…
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Inno3D Reveals Redesigned RTX 40 Series Cards With Hidden Power Connector
Inno3D has redesigned the power connectors on some of its RTX 40 series cards and brought a new hidden power connector revolutionising cable management in PC building. Redesigned Inno3D Hidden Power Connector This new design is for Inno3D’s RTX 4070, 4060 Ti and 4060 Twin X2 white edition cards and…
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ASUS Shows Off RTX 4070 With No Power Cables
ASUS has shown off an RTX 4070 card which does not use any power cables or adapters at all, possibly a new standard for GPU power. ASUS RTX 4070 Megalodon Concept The ASUS RTX 4070 Megalodon Concept with no power cables has been shared by wccftech on their tour of…
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5 Amazing Christmas Gifts That Santa’s Just Too Poor To Get You!
Buying tech, in the latter half of 2022 at least, has certainly been a lot easier than it was throughout the entirety of 2021. The only problem most people seem to have now is that with products actually available to purchase (and in good quantity), the cost of living has…
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Intel Says GPU Efficiency/Power Consumption is a Higher Priority than Performance
It has been exactly 2 months and 1 day since Intel’s long-awaited Arc Alchemist graphics cards were finally released onto the market, and I daresay that the fact that many of you have probably already forgotten about them clearly indicates just what a, relatively speaking, flop they have been with…
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PCI-SIG Tells 12VHPWR Manufacturers to NOT Deviate From the Specs!
The transition to the new 12VHPWR power adaptor standard certainly hasn’t gotten off to the best of starts with various reports from users that the connectors and graphics card ports have been melting. It is, infact, an issue that has significantly plagued the reputation of the Nvidia 4090 ever since…
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ASUS Says Intel’s DLVR Power Technology Will Never Be Enabled On Raptor Lake CPUs
Back in early 2021, a new Intel feature leaked online known as DLVR. While we didn’t know what this was at the time, it was shortly after confirmed that this acronym stood for Digital Linear Voltage Regulator which effectively represented a brand new technology looking to make power delivery to…
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ASUS PSU Figures Recommend a Minimum of 750W/850W Output for Radeon 7900 GPUs
With AMD’s Radeon 7900 series of graphics cards set for release on December 13th, based on the official figures provided by Team Red during their unveiling, it seems pretty clear that in terms of power consumption, Team Red’s GPUs should be notably more benign than Nvidia’s current offerings. – With…
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Nvidia Says There Are 2 12VHPWR Adapter Manufacturers (1 Good and 1 Bad?)
The saga (and controversy) surrounding Nvidia’s 12VHPWR adaptor is showing no signs of slowing down as more and more users continue to post reports online of them melting. – While Nvidia is still formally investigating the matter, however, so far they have yet to provide the community with any kind…
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Leaked AMD 7900 XT/7900 XTX Images Confirm GPUs Will Retain the VGA Power Port!
With AMD officially set to announce the launch of their Radeon 7000 graphics cards on November 3rd (less than a week away now) while a lot of interest has undoubtedly been placed on what kind of level of performance we might expect to see from them (and particularly so against…
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AMD Confirms Radeon 7000 Will NOT Be Using 12VHPWR (Standard VGA Lives On!)
With Nvidia seemingly fully embracing the 12VHPWR power connection standard on what may end up being their entire 40XX series of graphics cards, this did clearly raise the question as to whether AMD would choose to follow suit. – While rumours over the last few months had suggested that they…
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Nvidia Formally Investigating Reports of 4090 Power Adaptor Cables Melting
With the release of the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090, consumers have clearly been keen to check out the latest graphics card and particularly so in regards to flexing its incredibly potent muscles. For more than a few months now, however, concerns have been raised surrounding the 12-pin cable adaptors…
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Intel Confirm Fix to Stop Arc GPUs From Gobbling Up Power While Idle
With Intel’s new Arc series of graphics cards now (sort of) officially available to purchase, while they have largely been praised as a solid entry-level gaming graphics solution, a common complaint among early adopters is that when the GPU is idling, it is drawing an unusually large amount of power.…
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PCI-SIG Expresses Concerns Over PCIe Gen5 Adaptors
With the launch of Nvidia’s high-end 30XX series of graphics cards, we saw the somewhat soft introduction of the new PCIe Gen5 power connection standard. With all next-gen GPUs from both AMD and Nvidia expected to fully transition to this, however, it seems pretty clear that there are going to…
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