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Connectors and Sockets

The following interconnect products are from a variety of manufacturers addressing the different industry trends and requirements such as higher power, increased speeds, better reliability, and ...
Ars Technica

Motherboard "IDE Power" connector to 4-pin molex: what type of cable do I need?

On page 4, there is an "IDE Power" connector. It looks a lot like a 4 pin CPU fan connector, but it (obviously) provides different voltages that are appropriate for 3.5" IDE drives (5V, 12V) and the ...
Electronics Weekly

Wire-to-board connector has push-in wire sockets

Phoenix Contact has created a wire-to-board connector whose wires are initially installed using push-in action. Called the DD31PS series, they are effectively two connectors in one, with a end to ...
PC Gamer

MSI has gone so heavy with 12V-2x6 power sockets in its latest high-end PSUs that many AMD and Intel graphics cards have no way of being powered

Nvidia's 12VHPWR power connector, later updated to the 12V-2x6 format, has been at the centre of controversy since it first appeared on certain GeForce RTX 30-series cards four years ago. Now there's ...
PC Gamer

Cooler Master rescinds its recommendation to physically tamper with its angled 12V-2x6 GPU power connector for a 'fix' that doesn't work, and says it's ditching the right ...

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