Asus Taps Overclocking Community to Test External Power Card

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External card helps to regulate voltages

One reason to get into the hardcore overclocking scene is because you get to play with the latest gear. If you're particularly good at your craft, companies will stumble over themselves trying to hook you up with high-end hardware as you chase world overclocking and benchmark records, as they all want their brands associated with such feats. So, it's not surprising that Asus has sent out a handful of external power card prototypes to the overclocking community.
HWBOT forum user "elmor" posted a photo of the card, which at this stage is part of an experimental project. Only a few test samples have been sent out -- Asus wants to gain some feedback from overclockers regarding features, functions, and performance.
The card offers a single 8-phase output with an output voltage of 0-2.5V and output current of up to 500A. It has on-board voltage controls and monitoring, along with half a dozen hotwire connectors for auxillary VRMs. It's also firmware upgradable -- Asus intends to add profiles (save/load) to the mix along with a few other tweaks.
This isn't uncharted territory. EVGA offers a similar tool in its EPower Board 2.0 ($100 MSRP) and there's also Gigabyte's G-Powerboard that it showed off at Computex.
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