[STEAM] This new Asus graphics card connector can supply 1,000W of power with no cable

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Asus has just unveiled a new graphics card connector that does away with the power cables and sockets of conventional cards, and instead relies on a motherboard slot to deliver power, able to deliver up to 1,000W. The new Asus graphics card connector is an extension of the company's back-to-the-future (BTF) connection system it unveiled a couple of years ago, but this time the company has thought about how to make the system more powerful and more compatible.

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at the tail end of 2023, with the system designed to do away with cables in the front of a PC, and instead have the

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of the world draw their power from a connection on the motherboard. The problem with the first iteration of the design, though, was that BTF graphics cards couldn't fit in non-BTF motherboards, making it a very restricted system.

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