• The newest model of Asus GPU Tweak III comes with a nifty new function
• Energy Detector+ warns you if any of the pins in your graphics card’s energy connector have too many amps flowing by means of them
• That might result in a situation the place the facility cable melts, as we’ve seen in experiences, so the warning ought to assist you to keep away from a possible dangerous consequence

Asus has launched a brand new model of its GPU software program suite that provides what could possibly be a really helpful – or certainly crucial – warning for when temperatures run excessive with the graphics card, and an influence connector melting catastrophe would possibly happen.

The newest model of the GPU Tweak III software program comes with the Energy Detector+ warning perform, which Asus notes is unique to ROG Astral and Matrix graphics playing cards.

The ROG Astral fashions are the RTX 5090 and 5080, and the ROG Matrix is the RTX 4090 last-gen flagship.

As VideoCardz experiences, the concept is that the software program screens the facility cable, particularly the amps worth for the pins (contained in the connector) plugged into the port in your graphics card. Ought to there be an issue with one (or extra) of the pins not being seated correctly – and the worth both being zero or rising above 9 amps – the utility will flag up a warning.

The cable not being seated correctly on this approach is a doable situation by which the facility connector might find yourself significantly overheating to the purpose the place it melts, as we’ve seen reported previously with some Nvidia GPUs.

Which means that whenever you get this warning, you possibly can shut down your PC swiftly, after which examine the facility cable, maybe disconnecting after which plugging it again in additional firmly. Hopefully, that’ll resolve any problem and keep away from a cable soften incident that would harm the GPU.

Evaluation: Extra of this sort of monitoring, please – though it’s within the pipeline elsewhere

Curiously, the GPU Tweak software program is a utility that can be utilized with all GPUs, AMD or Nvidia, and never simply fashions from Asus both. Nevertheless, there’s solely assist for this power-related warning supplied for the Asus ROG RTX 5090 and 4090 flagships, and the RTX 5080 Astral, as famous – at the least for now.

Maybe the graphics card maker will increase this assist in time, because it’s undoubtedly a helpful warning system to have – and cable melting experiences should not unique to those fashions.

(In addition to experiences of this problem with the RTX 5090, I ought to notice that there have additionally been related claims made with RTX 5080 fashions, too – however there could possibly be all kinds of things at play right here, as we’ve mentioned previously. Clearly, although, the flagship GPUs will at all times be in probably the most perilous conditions, energy connector-wise, given the huge quantity of wattage they command – notably in the event you’re going to overclock these beasts of desktop graphics playing cards).

Hopefully, different distributors will climb aboard this energy warning bandwagon, though some players have already been utilizing the HWiNFO software to watch the amps of their energy cable’s pins. Observe that this performance for HWiNFO is just in beta testing proper now (and likewise requires a second utility, RivaTuner, to work).

The lengthy and wanting it’s that totally fledged and examined assist will hopefully be in HWiNFO earlier than too lengthy, with a bit of luck. The extra widespread this sort of monitoring will be made, the higher.

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