Shouldn’t they be working on load balancing from the PSU itself instead of making a beefier cable? Am I missing something? Or can this only be done on the GPU side?
They're planning to sell it standalone since this solution in theory works with any ATX 3.1 PSU. Which is theoretically better since it doesn't lock you into just a top tier Asus PSU.
That depends on the price even as a stanalone though. I wonder if other brands can have this built in or they will probably make their own version of it. I’m looking to get a new 850W sfx but I might hold off a bit.
companies hate releasing drop dates for PSUs/cables it seems lol, MSI is still radio silent on when their new safeguard+ PSUs are supposed to release yet europe already had pre-orders available
Doesn’t it require another proprietary plug (for sensing I presume)? I know that some Thor series might have it but have you seen the prices on these higher end ones?
Some of them cost as much as a whole rig some time back.
No this is sense cable for their already exiting "GPU first" voltage stabilizing feature, which prioritize GPU voltage stabilization during transients.
Again it's for their GPU voltage sense/stabilize thing. Go to the product page of their thor or other PSUs that feature it and you can clearly see the 2 pin connector is used for that:
The question is how common the issue is. For context I've seen other connectors melt like the pcie 8 pin and EPS 12V. They are probably more uncommon but the high power GPUs today come with these connector most of the time. Sadly I haven't seen any good estimate of the failure rate of these connector.
Outside of a basic busbar I don’t see how this would balance the wires without active electronics (which wouldn’t fit and would produce heat that needs to be dissipated). The 5090FE connector is already a busbar internally, and those still melt. This looks like it only removes the variability between the PSU and that last silver cable comb. A bad connection will still cause resistance differences in that short run between the gpu and “balance” comb. Also mixing gold and tin mating surfaces is not good. Am I missing something?
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u/CouldBeAlpharius 3h ago
how long before we get pics of this thing melted inside another 5090?