MSI is making some interesting upgrades to its upcoming X870 and X870E motherboards. Cowcotland reports that the motherboard manufacturer showed off new X870 and X870E motherboards at Gamescom 2024, featuring an 8-pin PCIe power connector installed at the bottom of the PCB.
The additional power connector is reportedly designed to power next-generation graphics cards. Assuming MSI is taking full advantage of the capabilities of a single 8-pin PCIe connector, these new X870/X870E motherboards will have up to 75W of additional power routed to the primary, secondary, or both PCIe slots thanks to that additional 8-pin power plug. A single PCIe x16 slot can already give up to 75W of power to the slot so that the extra 8-pin will give these new MSI boards up to 225W of power generation entirely from the x16 slot (or slots) alone.
