If you add another 150W from an 8-pin connector, you're looking at 225W from the motherboard alone. Now if you add up to 600W from a 12V-2x6 or 12VHPWR connector, the math suggests 800W or more is ...

Even an 8+4-pin setup will allow for a 1.5 times the total power capacity, compared to a single 8-pin cable. Like GPU cables, we want to use as many cables and ports as possible to even the ...

Like other new boards, MSI's new Arrow Lake Z890 line-up features an additional 8-pin PCIe connection, so we asked MSI what it's for.