Thermal Grizzly Wire View Pro 2

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RTX 4090 running Furnark, power limit slider in Aferburner set to 106% (maximum allowed)

Pleased to see very balanced load across all pins
 

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GPU checker? I own a PSU checker cost me like 7.00 on Amazon. 140.00 might be good for a Repair shop.
 
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GPU monitor, technically. It sits between the GPU and PSU, and you can monitor the load on each pin.
 
vegeta535 said:
It is funny. Now that I have money to burn I am less intrested in spending it on needless things unlike in my broke youth lol.
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Yeah I hear you. I don’t suffer from FOMO these days knowing I can buy something at any point, except for maybe GPUs since who knows when those will dry out. but the tinkerer in me likes to see what’s going on behind the scenes.

EDIT: Damn, my fat fingers combined with autocorrect really butchered my reply using a phone.
 
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I got mine in today, and found out that my 5090's pigtail adapter has quite the amperage imbalance on two pins. The lowest pin is at 6.5A max, and the highest pin hits over 10.6A max. Even adjusting the 8 pin PCIE cables around doesn't help, so I've got a new adapter cable on the way.

Yay for $150 tools to monitor shitty connectors!
 
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arestavo said:
I got mine in today, and found out that my 5090's pigtail adapter has quite the amperage imbalance on two pins. The lowest pin is at 6.5A max, and the highest pin hits over 10.6A max. Even adjusting the 8 pin PCIE cables around doesn't help, so I've got a new adapter cable on the way.

Yay for $150 tools to monitor shitty connectors!
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But but user error!!

Joke aside though, I really should get one ASAP. The way things have turned out, hardware lasts a lot longer than it used to, and I'm clearly not even nearly done with the 4090 with how good DLSS is.

edit: ordered!
 
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kalston said:
But but user error!!

Joke aside though, I really should get one ASAP. The way things have turned out, hardware lasts a lot longer than it used to, and I'm clearly not even nearly done with the 4090 with how good DLSS is.

edit: ordered!
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Yeah... I won't say that user error doesn't contribute to the overall crappiness of the connector (sideways torque being a big contributor), but it definitely isn't a good connector design for the power going through such a small area.

At this point I look at it as planned obsolescence, and the end users are stuck holding the short end if they don't always upgrade within the warranty period.
 
Success! The new Fasgear pigtail has all pins around 8.1A or less on average, and no alarms screaming at me. Thanks German engineering for a problem that should never have been allowed to go on for this long!
 
Seeing how just plugging the cable in can have varying results from one time to the next speaks loudly how poorly this design is. Bought and received Wire Pro 2.
 
The upper end video cards that use this type of 12v connections should have exactly these types of functions as WireViewPro II. It is light weight enough that I don't worry about it being installed. Comes with pwr and reset switch Y cable which I did not hook up, assuming with their software you can have automatic shutdowns, plus two TC's for measuring temperature which I did not hook up yet, not sure where to measure. HWinfo indeed sees the device and gives per pin voltage and current, plus Temperature In and Out assuming Out is the graphics card plug and In is power into the WireViewPro II plug. There is not much information that comes in the box, most of it is self-explanatory which is exactly how things should be built.

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The upper end video cards that use this type of 12v connections should have exactly these types of functions as WireViewPro II. It is light weight enough that I don't worry about it being installed. Comes with pwr and reset switch Y cable which I did not hook up, assuming with their software you can have automatic shutdowns, plus two TC's for measuring temperature which I did not hook up yet, not sure where to measure. HWinfo indeed sees the device and gives per pin voltage and current, plus Temperature In and Out assuming Out is the graphics card plug and In is power into the WireViewPro II plug. There is not much information that comes in the box, most of it is self-explanatory which is exactly how things should be built.

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The Astral and Matrix cards by ASUS have this functionality built in. There's also a card by MSI, forget which model though. But that's it.
 
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The Astral and Matrix cards by ASUS have this functionality built in. There's also a card by MSI, forget which model though. But that's it.
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That is good, I think this should be a more Nvidia driven hardware requirement. What would it have on price, $30 additional to the cost? And then have Driver support for monitoring and protection as well as firmware level protection. Older cards had load balancing, fuses etc. to prevent issues.
 
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