DIY-APE has reached an important milestone in developing the back-plug ecosystem for PC DIYers. BTF3.0 (via Uniko's Hardware) is designed so that no cabling is needed between your PSU, motherboard, or ...

ASUS has just announced its new BTF ecosystem of gaming motherboards, graphics cards, and PC cases into its ROG and TUF Gaming family of products. ASUS has said that even before the rise of windowed ...

Why it matters: Asus and other companies have spent years exploring ways to remove cables from the custom PC building process. The manufacturer's BTF standard aims to make installing graphics cards ...

If you're a regular browser of any social media relating to PC hardware, you'll almost certainly come across a weekly occurrence, or three, of an Nvidia GeForce RTX with a melted 12VHPWR connector.

Why it matters: As owners of high-end Nvidia RTX graphics cards continue to report melting power cables, Asus and streamer DIY-APE have kept refining their plans for an alternative power connection ...