ASUS also announces a new accessory, the ROG Equalizer. This is an in-house 12V-2×6 cable for graphics cards. With this, the brand also offers an in-house solution to limit the risk of melting of the connector widely used on NVIDIA cards (and on some RADEON cards too).
ROG Equalizer: ASUS offers its own cable!
Greater resistance to overheating!
With this cable, ASUS takes a different approach from ASRock and MSI. As a reminder, ASRock integrates thermal probes directly into its cable. In the event of overheating, the system cuts out. This saved an RTX 5090 from certain death. In contrast, MSI, with its SafeGuard+ GPU, adopts software monitoring and, if tolerances are exceeded, the system also shuts down.
ASUS doesn’t seem to have any of this. In fact, the brand points to much wider tolerances, enabling the cable to withstand much higher current intensities. While the 12V-2×6 standard calls for the cable strands to withstand 9.2A, those of the ROG Equializer go even higher: 17A.
ASUS carried out tests under extreme conditions, cutting four of the power pins on its cable and reproducing a situation of notable imbalance: the temperature on the remaining pins was 73.4°C. In contrast, 146°C was measured on a standard cable. So, even if the load is taken on a few wires, the quality of ASUS connectors means that overheating is greatly minimized.
A cable supplied with certain power supplies!
This new cable is supplied as standard with some of the brand’s power supplies. According to the ASUS leaflet, it’s supplied with the ROG Thor and ROG Strix Platinum. If you own a ROG Thor III or ROG Strix Platinum PSU, you can benefit from a discount on the purchase of this cable. Unfortunately, we don’t yet know the final retail price of this connector.
Here’s the ASUS product sheet!
