INTRODUCTION

    How many times have you found yourself wondering just how much power your graphics card or your entire system was drawing at a specific time? Personally, that's something I've always wanted and even though with software like AIDA64, HWiNFO and GPUZ you can see just how much power parts of your system are drawing it's not quite as easy (or as effective) as to actually being able to just look at your system to see the number. To be honest displaying power consumption (GPU, CPU and entire system) is a feature I've recommended to power supply manufacturers many times to date and even though some models with a similar feature do exist they are but a drop in the ocean (not to mention high cost). Thermal Grizzly has an easy solution for people who want to see just how much power their GPU is drawing at any given time and so today I'm testing both their WireView and WireView Pro GPU monitoring tools.

    Thermal Grizzly was founded in 2013 as a sole proprietorship by Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Wolf Eike Salow in Hamburg. In 2015, the first thermal paste was launched after Eike Salow entered into a collaboration with B. Eng. Roman Hartung (der8auer e.K.) for product development. Eike and Roman merged from sole proprietors in 2020 to form the newly founded Thermal Grizzly Holding GmbH. In 2021, the company headquarters were relocated to Berlin, where a new location for development and production was established. After almost two years, the company moved to the new production site in Hohen Neuendorf, Brandenburg, in 2023. The logistics center has been located in Lippstadt since 2019.

    Both the WireView and WireView Pro GPU monitoring tools by Thermal Grizzly plug directly into your graphics card power port/s and then with the power cable of your power supply unit (1/2/3x8-pin and single 12VHPWR models for the WireView - single 12VHPWR model for the WireView Pro). Whereas however the WireView monitors and displays current/lowest/highest/average power consumption, total power consumption, voltages and amps on its tiny OLED screen the WireView Pro model takes things a step further by  also displaying connector detection and temperatures both of the power port (GPU) and via two temperature sensors which you can attach to the GPU itself (you could even attach the longest one of the two sensors for example to your CPU cooler or RAM) and also getting an alarm function. For GeForce RTX 4xxx/5xxx owners who still own ATX 3.0 & PCIe 5.0 power supplies the WireView and WireView Pro GPU monitors are even more beneficial since they offer peace of mind by removing any possibility of them having an issue with the 12VHPWR power port.