Nick, gaming, and computers all first met in 1981, with the love affair starting on a Sinclair ZX81 in kit form and a book on ZX Basic. He ended up becoming a physics and IT teacher, but by the late 1990s decided it was time to cut his teeth writing for a long defunct UK tech site.
I was recently over in China, visiting MSI's factory where it makes motherboards, graphics cards, monitors, etc, and at the event, the company launched several new products.
Using two cables would mean each one could be kept well under its rated power/current limit and help prevent too much heat develop in one small area on the circuit board. But I do wonder what the future for high-end graphics cards is going to be, in terms of power consumption. While the 450 W TGP of the RTX 4090 is incredibly high, the card often doesn't reach that limit in gaming and it's by no means the most power greedy GPU ever launched.and 390X2, both of which were twin GPU cards with 580 W power limits. There are plenty of other cards with even higher power limits but they're all for workstations and whatnot.
There's no sign of 600 W GPUs just yet but who knows in the near future? If they do appear, then you'll almost certainly going to need a PSU like this MSI one. And I bet if it does happen, there'll be a vendor launching a
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