MSI Afterburner and some PSUs can now pull an emergency power brake to prevent your graphics card going up in a puff of smoke

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If you’ve kept up with hardware news in recent years, you’ll likely have seen reports of graphics card power connectors melting or similar. It happens enough as to be noteworthy, and led to a redesign for the connector itself, 12VHPWR. It’s also led to companies building out their own countermeasures, including a new one baked […]

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