PCI-E NV40 to require a new PSU? News from Hexus

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The fellas at Hexus have a juicy nugget of info on PCI-Express based NV45. According to Hexus, the word is that NVIDIA is changing the PCI-Express NV45 so that it only requires one power connection instead of the two that current cards have. The bad news is that it won’t be a standard molex connector. Hexus goes on to theorize that a new PSU would be required as well. Of course this is all rumor mill stuff right now, so we’ll see if we can’t get something official out of NVIDIA on this for you guys even if it is only a “We neither confirm nor deny…â€￾ type of statement.
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Blurb from Hexus;

True to their word NVIDIA have dropped the second connector on the card, however something which does raise doubts in our minds is the fact they now have a 3*2 connector on the card instead of a normal 'molex' connector. This is, in theory forcing consumers to buy a new PSU to feed this - the reason for the power connector change is to give 4 12 volt feeds to the card.
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http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?p=211484#post211484

I looked several times to see if this was posted, didnt see it.

Im very skeptical to believe this gossip. I have a hard time thinking NV making people upgrade their PSU's to run their card, let alone with a special power connector.
 
Well, at least they're getting it down to one molex....albeit a really, really big one! :oops:

Anyone else think this is a "NOT GOOD!" sign? :|
 
Maybe they could provide an adapter that takes two molex connectors as inputs and has a 3x2 connector for output? Seems like another act of desperation :LOL: "Hey, it only has one connector on the board! Ugh, but it still takes two molex connectors from my PSU." Genius, sheer genius.

-FUDie
 
PEG won't reduce the 6800's power consumption by itself. If PEG MBs (and the faster, hungrier CPUs and GPUs they're meant to support) will require a new PSU along with a new BTX form factor, Intel may as well push them all at once. The point being, nV may not be the (sole) root of a new power connector.

Have we seen a pic of a PEG card that will require an extra power connector? AFAIK, all we've seen are mid-range cards (low-clocked 5900XTs and RV3x0s and down), so I don't think anyone can say whether the purported X880XT won't also sport the same new power connector.
 
I would expect it to require only one connector considering PCIE can supply up to 75 watts of power. The new connector is odd though. Unless the BTX power supplys have them by default.
 
The PEG 6800s will also need to power that bridge chip, and considering it has a decent sized heatsink on it I think we can assume it'll suck a bit of juice.
 
JCLW said:
The PEG 6800s will also need to power that bridge chip, and considering it has a decent sized heatsink on it I think we can assume it'll suck a bit of juice.
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The PCX 5950 managed to add the bridge chip and lose the molex, and the lower 6800s are fine with one connection, so I'd be surprised if the PCIE 6800U needs both (unless they bump the clocks up a bit). Any word on when we'll see PCIE-native NV4x chips?
 
The PCX 5950 is (under)clocked at ~300MHz (core), tho, isn't it? Or am I thinking of something else, like the PCX 5900XT?
 
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