The story of overheating and melting NVIDIA"s 16-pin 12VHPWR power connector continues to daunt gamers, Developers, and Graphic Designers, where the most advanced GPUs can turn into mere pieces of metal due to uneven power delivery and overheating. Well, ASUS has seemed to solve the issue with their latest "ROG Equalizer" a 12V-2x6 PCIE Power cable that to ensure balanced current delivery and stable power output to the next-gen Graphics cards.
ASUS claims that the ROG Equalizer comes with a patented design which brings Balanced power delivery, and helps in maintaining stable thermal performance below the 105-degree Celsius limit. While performing an extreme test, the makers removed the middle four wires to check for current imbalance, which is the thought to be the root cause for melting of standard cables, and in these conditions, the ROG Equalizer was said to maintain a temperature of approximately 73.4 degrees Celsius; on the other hand, the standard cables reached a temperature of 146-degree celsius.
The other differentiating factor of ROG Equalizer from standard 12V-2x6 cables is that it increases the current capacity to 17A per cable, in contrast to the standard cables, which are rated for 9.2A. This improves the durability of the ROG Equalizer under a 600W continuous load, which increases the lifespan and reliability of both the cable and the GPU.
ASUS mentions the cable is compatible with ATX 3.1 and PCIe 5.1 graphics cards. It comes as a bundled package with ROG Thor III and ROG Strix Platinum series power supply lineup (1000W–1600W models). The users who already purchased the above PSUs will need to wait till the Upgrade Program, as it is in the "Coming Soon" phase.
As of now, the company hasn"t revealed the pricing of the product, and is expected to reveal that in the near future.