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The risk of burnt connectors on RTX 50 Series high-end graphics cards remains significant with no fix from Nvidia.
A Chinese electronics enthusiast has created a prototype 12V-2×6 adapter with amp reading, temperature sensors, and an alarm to address the burning issue, offering real-time monitoring and potential early warning.
The design is intended to be open-source, allowing users to modify, adapt, and improve it, potentially providing a valuable palliative solution for monitoring and preventing connector failures.
The problems with burnt RTX 4090, RTX 5090, and RTX 5080 are not going to go away, as there will always be users who are not informed about what is happening to them if the necessary measures are not taken in the short and long term and now the list of if-else checks if too long with many guesses in between.
The degradation is unstoppable, users are afraid of seeing their hardware burn, and that is why some are already creating their palliative measures because there is no final solution coming from Nvidia at the moment.
For this reason, a user in China with knowledge of electronics has designed the first 12V-2×6 adapter capable of detecting the load in amps of each cable, including a temperature sensor and an alarm to warn.
You have to be prepared if you haven’t already, that the problems with the graphics cards mentioned are not going to be solved anytime soon, and the only thing you can do is to use a new cable, with a PSU without too much “use”, to alleviate the symptoms, and change said cable every few years.
But this is a nightmare since at the slightest thing you will be like a neurotic thinking that your hardware can burn, or even your PC, if you want a possible palliative solution for the future, keep reading.
The First 12V-2×6 Adapter With Protection System: Amp Reading, Temperature Sensor, And Alarm
Looking at the concept, still in prototype form and not a final version, it is strange that big companies have not launched something similar, the closest thing we have seen is Thermal Grizzly Wireview Pro. Be that as it may, from China, a user shows the progress of what is simply a 12V-2×6 adapter with several peculiarities, such as real-time amp reading, temperature sensors, and an alarm.
All with the aim that the most hypochondriac users on the subject (and there are quite a few of you) can be more relaxed with their hardware.
What we see is nothing more than a small PCB to which the 16 corresponding pins are soldered with a fairly basic control circuit.
Monitoring, or updating, the software for said 12V-2×6 adapter appears to rely on a Type-C on its back, so it could be upgradeable to support new graphics cards in the future.
Will be An Open-Source Design
This is perhaps for the best because the design and software will be open source, meaning that if you are not happy with it, you can modify it yourself and adapt it to your graphics card, and even improve the design if you have the necessary knowledge.
The basis seems to be the Shunt resistors used by ASUS and other manufacturers, in this case, 0.002 ohms for each cable. What we understand, in the absence of concrete data, is that this 12V-2×6 adapter will have said amp reading, temperature sensors, and alarm through a specific software that will be installed in Windows or Linux, and from which we will be able to monitor each of the 16 cables, but this is not confirmed.
The only thing that can be seen is that the male connector will use a single delivery rail, so it will not affect the most advanced models such as the ROG Astral, since it will allow them to do their job in a kind of “double-check” between the resistors of this adapter and those of the graphics card itself with its Tweak III software.
If it ends up working as expected and is released as open source, it would be a very interesting palliative solution that will tell us when the cable or power supply has to be changed or renewed, because if we are attentive and the alarm warns us, it should avoid the burning and damage that we have already seen in dozens of cases.
What’s your take on this new design by an individual? Is it going to solve the major issue in the end? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.
Sajjad Hussain is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Tech4Gamers.com. Apart from the Tech and Gaming scene, Sajjad is a Seasonal banker who has delivered multi-million dollar projects as an IT Project Manager and works as a freelancer to provide professional services to corporate giants and emerging startups in the IT space.
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