AsiaHorse cautions against pairing this cable with Lian Li and Sharkoon supplies. Those two brands have shown elevated damage reports with it, and a different pairing is recommended. If you own either, keep the cable that came with the unit.
Two power supply brands get named directly in the fine print of an AsiaHorse cable listing, and that is unusual enough to deserve a plain explanation. The caution attached to the Hydrus 16-pin cable is not a generic disclaimer - it points specifically at Lian Li and Sharkoon, and it is worth understanding exactly what that means before you shop.
AsiaHorse cautions against pairing the R699 Hydrus 16-pin (12VHPWR) cable with Lian Li and Sharkoon power supplies, citing elevated damage reports with that combination, and recommends a different pairing where either brand is involved. If you own one of those two, the cable that shipped with your unit remains the safer choice for that supply.
The statement is specific: those two power supply brands have shown elevated damage reports when paired with this cable, and AsiaHorse recommends a different pairing as a result. It sits in the product listing alongside the compatibility list and the 480W rating, stated plainly rather than buried in fine print elsewhere.
Read carefully, this is a statement about a combination, not a verdict on the cable in isolation. That framing matters, because it changes what the caution asks of you: not "avoid this cable everywhere" but "avoid this specific pairing." The recommendation that follows is consistent with that reading - use a different pairing where those supplies are involved, rather than avoid the cable across the board.
If either brand is in your build, the practical response is the cable that came with the supply in the first place. It is already matched to that specific unit and removes the pairing the caution is about entirely. There is no workaround that lets the Hydrus cable safely pair with one of the named brands - the recommendation is a substitution, not a fix.
The caution is stated at brand level rather than naming specific models, which is the more cautious way to read it: treating it as applying broadly across a brand's range is safer than assuming only certain units are affected, absent more specific guidance.
If this cable ever moves to a different build, the caution should travel with it. A cable sitting in a drawer carries no label of its own, so anyone reusing it needs to know the same information before deciding which supply to pair it with. That is worth a line in your own build notes, since the information otherwise lives only in the original listing.
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That those two power supply brands have shown elevated damage reports with this cable, and that a different pairing is recommended.
The caution describes a combination rather than a defect in the cable on its own, which is why it names supply brands specifically.
Use the cable that shipped with that power supply. It is matched to the unit and avoids the pairing the caution addresses.
It is stated at brand level, so the safer reading treats it as applying across the range rather than to select models only.
In the product listing itself, alongside the compatibility list and the 480W rating.
It sits with this particular 16-pin modular cable, the one that connects directly into the power supply.
Yes. Anyone fitting it to a different build needs the same information before choosing which supply to use.
Checking whether your power supply brand is in the clear? Confirm the make and model on the unit itself, then browse Evetech's power supply range if a change turns out to be worthwhile.
That those two power supply brands have shown elevated damage reports with this cable, and that a different pairing is recommended.
The caution describes a combination rather than a defect in the cable on its own, which is why it names supply brands specifically.
Use the cable that shipped with that power supply. It is matched to the unit and avoids the pairing the caution addresses.
It is stated at brand level, so the safer reading treats it as applying across the range rather than to select models only.
In the product listing itself, alongside the compatibility list and the 480W rating.
It sits with this particular 16-pin modular cable, the one that connects directly into the power supply.
Yes. Anyone fitting it to a different build needs the same information before choosing which supply to use.
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