May be sooner or later......PC's power supply will be an external peripheral...

Gotta add a bunch of step down converters to motherboards if you remove the lower native voltages entirely, only leaving 12V. Fortunately they aren't expensive, though they claim some mobo real estate.

this is insane. they should REDUCE the power delivered by PSUs, not increase it.

Kaarme:

Gotta add a bunch of step down converters to motherboards if you remove the lower native voltages entirely, only leaving 12V. Fortunately they aren't expensive, though they claim some mobo real estate.

Well.... considering that the only components that use less than 12v in a computer anymore are RAM, storage devices, USB ports, and a whole host of hardware that most people don't even have in their computers anymore.... It won't need THAT many converters. But IIRC, they already showed an example of an ATX12VO motherboard, and it basically had what looked like a power supply header coming off the board that pigtailed into other various connectors like SATA and the like. I could be wrong about that though.... been a while since i've seen it.

Alessio1989:

this is insane. they should REDUCE the power delivered by PSUs, not increase it.

Unfortunately existing PCI Express 5.0 specifications are already targeting 350W, 450W and 600W now. Enthusiast cards like the 3090 Ti Kingpin is one thing with a theoretical power draw maximum and pull whatever until it hits any of the caps for scaling further. But yeah I am pleased about only needing one cable for a GPU although I see it more likely we'll have more power hungry designs and 2x to 3x connectors again now for cables drawing far more power. https://www.techpowerup.com/img/V60GtUcyPkgnBgdh.jpg https://www.hwcooling.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Změna-ve-specifikacích-zdroje-ROG-Thor-s-12pinovým-konektorem.png Gigabyte has one too, apparently Asus changed theirs at some recent point. And the joy of changing the PSU for the new GPU upgrade. Ha ha. Or not. Plus the power bill, I'm locked at a cheaper plan for now but that is not going to last. Sigh.

in reality there are less than a handful of cards that need a 600 watt tap. this is simply Intel and PSU manufacturers coming up with a new gimmick to drive sales. and just as real is the fact that no-one with that small handful of cards has an ATX 3.0 PSU. in the meantime, no word on efficiency specs so are they going to flog BRONZE ATX 3.0??? which is beyond stupid if they are. all new gen PSUs should be GOLD at minimum. so now we are talking about 1K Kw (and up) Gold PSUs that will work just like the existing ones (albeit with one connector) at a greatly exaggerated price

Intel can file this bit of brilliance right beside wherever they stashed the BTX motherboard design. Wouldn't it be better to just shoot for 950W now, and then be set for both PCIe Gen 7.0 and Far Cry 9? Oh! And Assassin's Creed 2051, too?

No doubt the gfx card will be able to signal the max power it should ever be given, requiring a hardware mod if you want more than a few MHz overclock. What was basic enjoyment will now cost the warranty, even then you wont get much for it. It was fun while it lasted.