Cooler Master has created a brand new line of PSUs with a extra sturdy 12VHPWR 16-pin energy connector that’s much less liable to melting. The connector has been modified from the highest down to enhance the cable’s security together with thicker supplies, and an improved latching mechanism.
The connector is obtainable on Cooler Master’s GX III sequence of energy provides, together with the 650W, 750W, and 850W fashions. The improved 12VHPWR connector comes with 25% thicker supplies, extra contact springs, and 12% increased insertion and withdrawal pressure. Best of all, the cable comes with a 90-degree angled connector that can cut back cable stress, in addition to enhance compatibility with greater graphics playing cards and smaller instances. Cooler Master says the brand new cable design ends in 5°C decrease temps and a forty five% discount in impedance change price.
NVIDIA has formally acknowledged that consumer error is the supply of the issue, regarding improper insertions from 16-pin cables/adapters into the graphics card itself. But, we just lately found that PCI SIG is already creating a revised 16-pin connector that fixes the entire melting points with the present model, suggesting that the difficulty was not fully associated to consumer error. NVIDIA has even gone on to make use of among the revised connector’s specs contained in the RTX 4070’s 16-pin connector, making NVIDIA’s unique declare much more suspicious.
Nonetheless, it is good to see producers constructing safer and extra superior variations of the present 12VHPWR connector as we watch for the brand new revised model to reach. We can’t verify if Cooler Master’s new design will fully eradicate all melting dangers on 12VHPWR-supported playing cards, however it ought to cut back the probability of harm on the very least.
The energy provides themselves are 80-Plus Gold-rated models, that includes absolutely modular cabling and Cybernetics Platinum-certified effectivity — being able to hitting Titanium stage effectivity underneath 20% load. The models are available in an all-black shade and have a honeycomb-style air flow panel on the entrance that’s answerable for defending a single 135mm cooling fan that’s licensed for zero RPM operation. Depending on the wattage, the GX III sequence comes with as much as three PCIe 6+2 pin energy connectors, and a single 12VHPWR connector with the improved cable.
