As quickly as I noticed pictures of Nvidia’s RTX 4090 (opens in new tab), I began nervously eying my case. This new GPU is not tiny. It is the alternative of tiny. It is you-might-need-a-new-case not-tiny. At a full inch taller than the 3080 Founder’s Version, there’s an opportunity the 3090 will not match into narrower instances when you issue within the energy cables. Cable firm Cablemod have provide you with an answer for that very particular drawback: a low-profile energy adapter.
Cablemod’s cable adapter (opens in new tab) for the RTX 4090 (noticed by Tom’s {Hardware} (opens in new tab)) gives a 90-degree bend, giving you extra space and clearance between your GPU and aspect panel. CableMod 12VHPWR proper angle adapter plugs into your RTX 4090’s 12VHPWR port, rated to PCIe 5.0 spec. Proper now, the CableMod 12VHPWR solely helps the RTX 4090, nevertheless it ought to work on different GPUs as soon as extra arrive with that very same connector (it is completely different than the ability pins most GPUs have been utilizing for years).
The RTX 30-series Founders Editions provide a equally sized and formed connector, however these lack the additional 4 auxiliary pins, so they’re incompatible.
The adapter itself measures 29mm x 36.3mm x 23.2mm.
In line with the corporate, what units the CableMod 12VHPWR adapter aside from different 90-degree connectors is that it “makes use of a multi-PCB design to attain a proper angle connection.” The appropriate-angle connection means you will not have the ability cable protrude out, taking over extra treasured house inside your PC case.
The facility adapter has two completely different configurations, so it ought to match different appropriate graphics playing cards sooner or later even when their energy ports are oriented in another way than the RTX 4090’s.
With the 90 diploma plug there’s ideally no wire bending; it ought to be capable of relieve any potential pressure from you having to tug the ability cable across the behemoth card and behind the motherboard to achieve the ability provide.
This concept is that it ought to make the gargantuan video card simpler to put in inside smaller or oddly sized PC instances. Some instances merely aren’t huge sufficient to accommodate each the RTX 4090 and its chunky 12-pin (16-pin in case you embody the auxiliary pins) energy cable. And judging by the way in which issues are going, the RTX 4090 is not going to be the final absolute chonker of a GPU.
The CableMod 12VHPWR right-angle adapter goes on pre-sale on October thirty first. No phrase on pricing simply but.