The ASUS ROG Equalizer is a potential solution for RTX 5090 owners who want to avoid the possibility of their cable connectors melting, resulting in their GPU being essentially useless. Naturally, some PC gamers who are willing to spend the money on a new RTX 5090 GPU are reluctant to push it too hard for fear of it becoming a useless piece of junk. That’s assuming you’re able to afford the graphics card in the first place given the price increases thanks to the ongoing RAM shortage.
While this problem popped up with the RTX 40 series GPUs initially, it became an issue again with the RTX 5090, despite NVIDIA’s changes. NVIDIA has yet to fix the problem as buyers have continued to report the issue with their own cards. This has led to ASUS and other board partners to come up with solutions on their own that can hopefully prevent the damage. For ASUS’s part, the ASUS ROG Equalizer is that potential solution.
The ASUS ROG Equalizer is a power supply cable that is designed to prevent connectors from melting
It’s worth noting that ASUS isn’t promising its new Equalizer cable will entirely prevent cables from melting. However, it is aimed at mitigating the risk. Meaning, your chances of this happening to you should end up being lower with ASUS’s cable.
The ROG Equalizer is designed to “balance the load across all pins equally,” hence the name. As ASUS notes on its product page, the cable balances power delivery so no one pin on the connector is transferring more power than any other. ASUS displays this in a visualized test that shows the difference in temperatures that can arise with and without this cable, and it’s a pretty big difference. In the depiction without the Equalizer cable, one pin is shown getting up to 146 degrees Celsius. With the Equalizer that temperature drops down to around 73.4 degrees Celsius. Quite the gap.
The main issue is that the during sustained heavy use under 600W power draw, cables end up with hot spots that can lead to the melting, and that unfortunately leads to broken GPUs. Which no one wants. ASUS hasn’t announced pricing for the cable as a standalone item but it will be available standalone eventually. ASUS confirms that it’s compatible with ATX 3.1 and PCIe 5.1 PSUs. Initially, ASUS will be bundling it with two of its own PSUs: The ROG Thor III and ROG Strix Platinum.
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