Gigabyte describes its new PSU range as a 'Hardware Guardian', protecting your graphics card from melting and presumably fighting crime in its spare time

Not content to let MSI run away with the GPU-protecting power supply market, Gigabyte has announced its new Gaming Series of PSUs. The company says that these units are the ultimate "Hardware Guardian" for high-performance systems, thanks to their T-Guard active thermal monitoring technology.

Complete with a promotional image showing a superhero-like figure between two of the aforementioned models, no less. Similar to MSI's efforts, Gigabyte says these power supplies have built-in sensors to monitor 12V-2x6 connector temperatures in real-time, and can reduce power to the GPU if they detect any abnormalities.

Which should help allay concerns about another meltgate, for anyone still worried. There's also a dual-col...