A benchtop power supply is a key thing to have for any aspiring electronics hacker. While you can always buy one, plenty of us have old computer PSUs ... plugs outputting +12V, -12V, +5V, and ...

It appears that Chipzilla and AMD have seen Nvidia's success with its 12V 2×6 connector ... to 600 watts of power and have so-called “sense pins”, which enable the power supply to be monitored.

Nvidia switched its RTX 4000 series GPUs to 12V-2x6, and the upcoming RTX 5000 lineup will also use the new format ... needs only 250W. Still, power supply manufacturers might force a general ...