Redditor gets sick of waiting for Nvidia and makes a tool to protect RTX 5090 GPUs from melting their power cables
- 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.
An enterprising Redditor has made their own open source tool for Windows which is designed for Asus Astral RTX 5090 and 5080 graphics cards, acting as a monitoring app that will (hopefully) step in to prevent any melting disasters before they happen.
The creator, Humza Khalid, tells us how the small utility, which is available to...
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