Nvidia's 12VHPWR power connector, later updated to the 12V-2x6 format, has been at the centre of controversy since it first ...

The power supply blows air over the CPU rather ... but to place all the connectors directly on the motherboard. Prior to the ATX, only the keyboard connector was attached to the motherboard.

It took some clever work to be able to use a normal power supply in the little box. At first, we thought this wouldn’t be much of a story. The motherboard surely took all the regular pins ...

which can supply up to 600 watts of power through a single connector. PCIe x4 and x8 cards can draw up to 25W from the motherboard's slot, while x1 cards are limited to 10W unless configured as a ...