ASUS has launched the new ENGTX275 card, and the interesting new feature is their new current protection. Overclockers are well aware of the potential to accidentally damage a card through over-current and over-voltage conditions. ASUS is going to some old-school technology, Fuses, to triple the protection.
The ASUS ENGTX275 Series is just the first of ASUS’ graphics cards to come equipped with a second over-current protection device—Fuse Protection, that eliminates any chance of an excessive or dangerous temperature rise in the conductors on the graphics card. With three sets of input fuses present on the circuit board of the ENGTX275/HTDI/896MD3, at least one of these sets will “break” to interrupt the flow of electrical current if the over-current protection controllers malfunction.
