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Jacob Fox

Fear not, RTX 50-series owners, because ASRock's new PSUs have extra thermal sensors to shut off overheating GPU power cables

ASRock power supply with 12V-2x6 power cable that has a thermal sensor.

I'm just as susceptible to a flashy OLED screen or over-designed chassis as the next person, but I'll be damned, I think the two favourite things I've seen from Computex this year have been on power supplies, of all things. Yesterday there was the PSU with a swiveling power connector, and today we're seeing that ASRock is making power supplies that fit 12V-2x6 power connectors with extra sensors to check for overheating.

That's presumably as a response to the apparent issues some RTX 50-series graphics cards have with overheating power cables. The whole 'melting RTX cable' started last generation with the RTX 4090, but there have been some problems this generation, too.

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