This GPU Has NO Power Cable… Here’s Why

We saw the Sapphire Nitro+ X870EA PhantomLink motherboard along with its matching graphics card at Computex 2025, and it has taken almost a full year for review hardware to arrive. This is an implementation of the power system used in Asus BTF hidden connector graphics cards, except that here we have a Radeon 9070 XT rather than an RTX 5090. It might seem a bit odd but we have plenty to discuss... Read the written review here: https://www.kitguru.net/components/motherboard/leo-waldock/sapphire-nitro-x870ea-phantomlink-review/ 00:00 Intro 00:44 Setting the scene - GPU power connectors 02:40 What is PhantomLink? 04:01 The motherboard package + specs 06:58 BIOS updates… 09:09 BIOS setup and options 10:08 RGB control in TriXX-M 11:00 Performance testing 11:53 Leo’s closing thoughts 14:29 Pros and cons Sapphire sent us the following MSRPs: Sapphire Nitro+ X870EA PhantomLink Polar Edition for £319.99 inc VAT. Sapphire Nitro+ RX 9070 XT PhantomLink Polar Edition £879.99 inc VAT. Test System Specification: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Memory: 32GB G.Skill Trident Z5 Royal Neo DDR5-6000 CPU Cooler: Phanteks Glacier One 360MPH Graphics card: MSI GeForce 4090 Ventus 3X 24GB Power supply: Antec Signature 2200 SSD: 1TB Samsung 9100 Pro M.2 NVMe OS: Windows 11 We never offer affiliate links or take percentages of product sales. If we say the product is good or bad we mean it. Our Editor in chief wrote about why you should value this and how the industry is rife with fake reviews from 'influencers' - read here https://bit.ly/3pXzaw4 Buy our merch from here: https://kitgurutech.myspreadshop.co.uk Discord invite link: https://discord.gg/4cqFSWY Steam Community https://steamcommunity.com/groups/kitguruofficial Be sure to support us on PATREON https://www.patreon.com/kitgurutech and read our MANTRA on HONEST REVIEWS Here: http://bit.ly/2BopnF9 Visit our facebook page over here! https://www.facebook.com/KitGuru.net/ Visit our Twitter page over here! https://twitter.com/kitgurupress?lang=en #PhantomLink #Sapphire #PCBuild #GamingPC #TechReview