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I’ve never understood why they can’t just have the motherboard take straight 12V power over and just do all other conversions (5V, 3.3V) on-board. SATA and similar could be powered through the board headers and already are in some cases (AsRock Deskmini lineup is the obvious one to me). Would be lovely to just have 8 pin 12V connectors as the basis for all larger draws (motherboard base power, EPS, PCIe)

[QUOTE="Kmpkt, post: 128888, member: 206"] I’ve never understood why they can’t just have the motherboard take straight 12V power over and just do all other conversions (5V, 3.3V) on-board. SATA and similar could be powered through the board headers and already are in some cases (AsRock Deskmini lineup is the obvious one to me). Would be lovely to just have 8 pin 12V connectors as the basis for all larger draws (motherboard base power, EPS, PCIe) [/QUOTE]

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