PCI Express 4.0 Will Deliver 75 Watt over PCIe not 300W
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Andr3w
I was wondering when I saw the news on the web, how will a PCIE slot deliver so much power ?! I turns out that it can't deliver 300 W, lol :P
umeng2002
Shocking! :banana:
dj_aris
Would be nice to bump it to 100W, GPUs are getting less and less demanding.
What would be even nicer (and easier) though is to solder connectors in a different location on the GPU boards. Right now they all have them in a rough spot if you care about a clean build. Even if you route cables for miles you still have to plug cables around the middle of your system, that is always bad aesthetically imho. Maybe mobos could even have a small hole at the end of the PCIEx16 slots to route aux cables behind the board?
MainFrame Alpha
Thank you for correcting that info Hilbert although an increase in pci-e is welcomed, oh and thanks for the bread crupms..that lightning looks good 🤓
Cave Waverider
Yes. Having the connectors where they are right now might be handy for accessibility without having to remove the card, but having to route the cables away from the back wall and around the card isn't nice for airflow or aesthetics for sure.
vbetts
Moderator
https://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/71313751.jpg
Koniakki
That's the GTX 980Ti Lightning. 🙂
MainFrame Alpha
Thank you for clearing that one:)
Koniakki
I just pointed it before anyone thinks otherwise.
That could escalated real quick in the interweb. :P
Kaarme
What're "supplemental power connectors" supposed to be? Surely it's not referring to the power coming from the PSU directly? There's no reason why that couldn't be 2MW if somebody wanted a laser cannon inside their computer case. Neither the mobo nor the PCIe would know nothing of it. Yet it seems strange the mobo would have another power connector somehow connected to the video card if needed, but I guess it's not impossible, just not overly compatible with older mobos.
Evildead666
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay 🙂
Thanks for clearing that one up Hilbert.
The Internet was starting to go all loony....
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
Yeah, sorry I didn't mean to confuse. It has three 8-pin power connectors hence I used it in the news-item as reference material. That was not a mysterious 'future' lightning or anything.
CPC_RedDawn
Makes no sense to increase the power through the PCIE connector.
This would take graphics cards backwards.
Nvidia, AMD, and even Intel have made strides towards lower power more efficient GPU's for years now and with the likes of the 750Ti and the 950 not even needing a power connector but still being powerful enough to run games decently is a massive thing.
Remember the days when someone would ask you "I want to upgrade PC's graphics, I brought the PC off the shelf from a supermarket"
and you go.... "oh dear lord, your gonna need a new PSU first" and they look at you like you just told them the Illuminati was real.
Hootmon
Home-built rig with fricken "laser" beams.
TheDeeGee
Pushing 4x300 Watt through the Motherboard Traces in 4-Way SLI/CrossFire would be quite a challenge ^^
tsunami231
hahah this better then over used "its over 9000" then again anything vegeta did or say was hilarious it always ends with that decisions causing the crap to the hit the fan :wanker:
anyway on topic, I knew it was to good to be true to see the end of extra power cables of pci-e devices/gpus I bet this will result in 3rd 6/8pin connector on them :bang:
PrMinisterGR
I wouldn't bet on that. SLI in the form of explicit multi-adapter, yes. The mix and match type is going to more or less explode in the coming 5 years.
robintson
300 Watts over PCIe would be an overkill for motherboards. It looked too good to be true 🙂
MainFrame Alpha
again Thank you Hilbert for correcting the info on the new PCI-E standard and and explaining what the pic is all about 🙂
icedman
It would still have been nice if they had increased it to at least 100w or something this way the low end would have a bigger window before needing a connector.
