{"id":858862,"date":"2026-08-17T21:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/858862\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T21:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:04:12","slug":"asus-gpu-tweak-iii-adds-auto-shutdown-to-prevent-12v-2x6-meltdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/858862\/","title":{"rendered":"ASUS GPU Tweak III Adds Auto-Shutdown to Prevent 12V-2\u00d76 Meltdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/332334\/unofficial-12v-2x6v-power-connector-melts-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090?cp=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NVIDIA 12v-2\u00d76 GPU power cable meltdown debacle<\/a> seems to be something of a cat-and-mouse game, in which GPU board partners and PSU manufacturers keep <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/340290\/asrock-adds-overheating-protection-to-its-l-shaped-12v-2x6-gpu-cable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">trying to find workarounds and new safeguards<\/a> against the GPU cables that have now claimed many a gaming GPU. ASUS&#8217;s latest <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asus.com\/me-en\/supportonly\/rog-strix-rx580-8g-gaming\/helpdesk_download\/\" target=\"_blank\">GPU Tweak III V2.1.8.0<\/a> update adds yet another feature to help save GPUs from potential temperature-induced premature failure. <\/p>\n<p>The GPU Tweak III update adds support for auto-shutdown on GPU models with Power Detector+, which will shut down a system when &#8220;persistently high current is detected.&#8221; ASUS has not shared what the exact parameters are for high current or how long the high current must be sustained before it triggers. Being limited to Power Detector+ GPUs means that auto-shutdown is limited to the ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090, ROG Astral LC GeForce RTX 5090, ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080, and ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 4090 GPUs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/img\/iOCxSB1HMHD8uQMq.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-width=\"1440\" data-height=\"960\" data-fancybox=\"g351662\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/iOCxSB1HMHD8uQMq_thm.jpg\" width=\"195\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/img\/H3vHwe60Xz2frRJo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-width=\"1160\" data-height=\"960\" data-fancybox=\"g351662\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/H3vHwe60Xz2frRJo_thm.jpg\" width=\"157\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a> ASUS&#8217;s previous safeguards include the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/348123\/asus-introduces-rog-equalizer-12v-2x6-cable-for-gpu-power-stability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ROG Equalizer cable<\/a>, which is a 12v-2\u00d76 cable with built-in power balancing that helps keep internal cable temperatures at or below 73 \u00b0C. Power Detector+ previously only warned users when current exceeded safe limits and worked with the Equalizer cable to detect power draw across the GPU power cable pins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NVIDIA 12v-2\u00d76 GPU power cable meltdown debacle seems to be something of a cat-and-mouse game, in which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,105],"class_list":["post-858862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}