Asus is really hoping its new cable-free design for future graphics cards catches on, as it's bringing it to its next generation of B850 motherboards for AMD's Ryzen 9000 CPUs. The new boards ...

Asus has finally named its cable-free initiative that involves both motherboards and GPUs and has also added cases to the program: Back to (the) Future, or BTF for short. This means that future ...

During a tour of ASUS HQ at Computex 2023, we got a look at several exciting new products, with one of the standouts being its new "hidden concept" GeForce RTX 4070 GPU that was all about removing ...

ASUS has a rather radical solution for the ill-fated 12VHPWR connector: ditch it instead of fixing it. A new BTF standard replaces 12VHPWR and cumbersome cable management for a 600W PCIe connector. At ...

According to the hardware news site Extremetech, 'cableless' is booming among PC parts manufacturers, and at the computer-related trade fair ' COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2023 ' held in Taiwan in early June 2023, ...

While Asus BTF (Back-To-the-Future) components have been available for a little while now, their cable-free design couldn't accommodate the highest performance graphics cards, like the GeForce RTX ...

The big picture: Asus is pushing its Back-to-the-Future (BTF) concept at CES with the introduction of new graphics cards that do away with auxiliary power connectors. Asus' BTF initiative is designed ...

Asus recently announced that people can request a free, 16-pin graphics power cable to provide more peace of mind for owners of an issue-plagued Nvidia card. With only a single mention of the ...

The War on Cables rages on! The hottest trend from Computex back in May was decreasing, or in some cases eliminating, visible cable connections in the interior of desktop PC builds. And at least one ...

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In what seems to be some clarification on the PCIe Gen5 12-pin power connector and the 12+4-pin version, is the full spec cable with 12 pins and 4 data signal paths. These additional pins are actually ...