{"id":135247,"date":"2022-02-05T07:24:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T15:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/asus-quietly-changes-rog-thor-ii-psu-pcie-gen5-cable-specs-from-600w-to-450w"},"modified":"2022-02-05T07:24:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T15:24:09","slug":"asus-quietly-changes-rog-thor-ii-psu-pcie-gen5-cable-specs-from-600w-to-450w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/asus-quietly-changes-rog-thor-ii-psu-pcie-gen5-cable-specs-from-600w-to-450w","title":{"rendered":"ASUS quietly changes ROG Thor II PSU PCIe Gen5 cable specs from 600W to 450W"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asus-quietly-changes-rog-thor-ii-psu-pcie-gen5-cable-specs-from-600w-to-450w2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ASUS Thor PSU won\u2019t supply 600W of power through PCIe Gen5 connector ASUS\u2019s first PCIe Gen5 power supplies won\u2019t be 100% compliant with the new standard.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Earlier this week <a href=https:\/\/videocardz.com\/newz\/pcie-gen5-power-connector-is-compatible-with-geforce-rtx-30-founders-edition>it was discovered<\/a> that the ASUS 12-pin cable which is supposedly the Gen5 Ready, is actually the same cable that NVIDIA ships for its GeForce RTX 30 Founders Edition graphics cards. However, there is a small twist to this story.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that we might finally know the difference between the PCIe Gen5 12-pin power cable and the 12+4-pin version. The latter is the full spec cable offering 12 pins alongside special 4 data signal paths. Those data pins are required to be fully compliant with the PCI-SIG\u2019s \u201c12VHPWR High Power Connector (H+)\u201d standard, the supposed new high-power connector for next-gen GPUs.<\/p>\n<p>In order to supply more than 450W of power, the cable must have one of those signals grounded. Since ASUS Thor PSUs only have 12-pin cable and the company has confirmed earlier it \u2018pipes up to 600W of power\u2019, then this signal must have been internally grounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASUS Thor PSU won\u2019t supply 600W of power through PCIe Gen5 connector ASUS\u2019s first PCIe Gen5 power supplies won\u2019t be 100% compliant with the new standard. Earlier this week it was discovered that the ASUS 12-pin cable which is supposedly the Gen5 Ready, is actually the same cable that NVIDIA ships for its GeForce RTX [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}