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Darren Allan

Redditor gets sick of waiting for Nvidia and makes a tool to protect RTX 5090 GPUs from melting their power cables

ASUS ROG Astral LC GeForce RTX 5090 OC Edition liquid cooled graphics card against a blue background.
  • Someone made a tool for Asus Astral RTX 5080 and 5090 GPUs
  • It's designed to prevent a melting connector, shutting down the PC before this happens
  • This third-party utility – and the response to it – shows the level of paranoia out there when it comes to this issue

Do you have a high-end Nvidia Blackwell GPU, and if so, are you worried about the perils of a melted power connector? It appears that definite concerns remain in this area, to the point that a new utility has been crafted to address those worries.

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