That new 12VHPWR that burns your house down: is upright version available??

[frogblender]

In regards to that new "12VHPWR" gpu power connector (which, fyi, is already obsolete, having been replaced in CEM5.1 by the "12V-2x6" connector, which is exactly the same thing, except less likely to burn your house down):

I am looking for a pinthru PCB-mount version that is:  upright, instead of the usual lay-flat.  The lay-flat hogs too much of my PCB board edge.

 I *almost* found an upright (see photo)... but it suffers from a severe case of "Dude, where's my sidebands?" (it is missing the four signal pins that the lay-flat has, and the spec requires you to have, IIRC).

So anyone know a PN for an upright12VHPWR/12V-2x6 connector?

[HwAoRrDk]

You mean 'upright' as in the pins are still at right-angle, but the short side of the connector is adjacent to the PCB? As opposed to the common 'vertical' connectors where the pins point upward, perpendicular to the PCB.

Somehow I doubt you'll find such a thing, because I don't think these connectors have any applications outside of the PCIe GPU field that they were invented for, and so the connector manufacturers are only producing parts that the GPU manufacturers are using - which doesn't include such an oddity as an upright connector.

[frogblender]

Yes, exactly as you state:  upright, not vertical.   Mating is parallel to the PCB.

[langwadt]

put it on separate pcb and mount that vertically on the main pcb either soldered in a slot or with a right angle connector

[frogblender]

put it on separate pcb and mount that vertically on the main pcb either soldered in a slot or with a right angle connector

Yup.. I did exactly that:  a small, cheap, beautifully-contoured 6-layer pcb with 2oz copper, with the RA pthru headers you speak of.   Alas, the risk-averse boss, having never seen such a thing on a production board before, gave me the big fat NO

[langwadt]

put it on separate pcb and mount that vertically on the main pcb either soldered in a slot or with a right angle connector

Yup.. I did exactly that:  a small, cheap, beautifully-contoured 6-layer pcb with 2oz copper, with the RA pthru headers you speak of.   Alas, the risk-averse boss, having never seen such a thing on a production board before, gave me the big fat NO

it's really no different than a pci card, a pcb mounted vertically to get more room for connectors