Overclock.net overclocking forum user "Vinz" told a tragic experience of his, which was related to the 12V-2x6 16-pin power supply interface that is difficult to describe. He has a ROG RTX 5090 ASTRAL Night God Edition water-cooled graphics card.Modified shunt resistor to relieve power consumption limitation (shunt-modded), flash the overclocking BIOS, and unlock the power consumption limit up to 2000W.
He modified four 8-pin to 16-pin power cords at the same time, and thenA Violent Bear WireView detector is added between the 16-pin power supply interface of the graphics card and the power cable.
Once completed it ran at full load, including benchmarks and games.
During this period, WireView continuously issued alarms, indicating that the temperature at the input end (power supply side) was as high as 124°C, but the output end (graphics card side) was only 42°C.
Since the pin monitoring data of the graphics card itself showed normal, the power line load was almost perfectly balanced, and the WireView was not hot to the touch, he thought it was a false alarm and ignored it.
As a result, the next day,The power supply interface of WireView was burned out and almost melted with the power cord, making it impossible to unplug it.
Fortunately,The graphics card and the power supply interface of the Corsair 1600W power supply are all safe and sound, only the detector is failing.
Afterwards, he replaced the four original 8-pin to 16-pin power cords and replaced them with a new WireView detector. This time the temperature detection was normal, and the input and output terminals were only a little over 40°C.
Violent Bear does not provide any after-sales service for damage caused by such modification operations.
But after hearing about this, the brand founder and famous overclocking player Der8auer still sent a brand new one to netizens.
