Power Matters with EVGA PowerLink - Clean up your Power and System!

Raevenlord · Sep 23, 2019

Everyone knows that the EVGA PowerLink does wonders to improve your cable management for your graphics card. But did you know that the EVGA PowerLink also stabilizes the power going into your graphics card? The EVGA PowerLink is designed to provide both a more stable power source and reduce ripple and noise, compared to connecting your power supply directly to the graphics card. The EVGA PowerLink features two solid state capacitors that help to filter/suppress ripple and noise from the power supply.

The practical impact can be seen in power graphs. The 12V line going into graphics card without a PowerLink under load rates a Peak-to-Peak voltage of 1,008mV, while the 12V line going into the graphics card with a PowerLink is only 728mV. That's nearly a 28% reduction in voltage variation from the external power source!

Revolutionized Cable Management
The EVGA PowerLink has another function: to make your PC look even more awesome. This adapter allows you to reroute the power inputs for your graphics card, giving you improved case airflow, a lower profile height, and best of all, cleaner wiring setup. It even supports a unique configuration system allowing you to mix and match power input types to match your graphics card.

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The EVGA PowerLink is a great investment to not only improve the way your PC looks, but also protect your graphics card.

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ncrs · Sep 23, 2019

So it's just 2 capacitors inside all that plastic? Pretty sure there's enough of those on the cards already...

LocutusH · Sep 23, 2019

What if they just dont put the power connectors on the top, but at the end of the card, by default?
I know, they couldnt sell an additional piece of plastic, for shameless high price.

Chomiq · Sep 23, 2019

LocutusH said:
What if they just dont put the power connectors on the top, but at the end of the card, by default?
I know, they couldnt sell an additional piece of plastic, for shameless high price.

Since EVGA uses reference pcb for their basic cards this would require changes by Nvidia, or a complete switch to custom pcb across their entire lineup.

Basard · Sep 23, 2019

What's the point if there is no RGB......

phill · Sep 23, 2019

I do like these connections from EVGA, surprised they aren't bundled with any of the cards they sell to be honest.... Well for the cards that need it anyways

xkm1948 · Sep 23, 2019

I got one for $5 free shipping last uear. Good for cable management. And yeah you can paint that EVGA logo to match your case theme for sure. I like it

ZoneDymo · Sep 23, 2019

"The EVGA PowerLink is a great investment to not only improve the way your PC looks, but also protect your graphics card. "

Jeez, not getting an EVGA psu any time soon....

bogami · Sep 23, 2019

In order for this element to be 50% narrower and even more beautifully made, there is no mention here of an element adapted to difoult cards, and it is in this picture that you can see how much higher the output port is. This product has been on the market for some time now and anyone who has acquired a little bit of reason can do it alone. Unfortunately, a good idea is given in the bad-looking miserable looks. And that's not what sells this product ! All for quick and mega profit .

FreedomEclipse · Sep 23, 2019

xkm1948 said:
I got one for $5 free shipping last uear. Good for cable management.

I was just thinking this actually. cables coming out of the bottom of the card rather than the side would make for a cleaner nicer looking build. Sadly it currently costs about $20-25 here so its currently a waste of money for something that does little to nothing.

Nuckles56 · Sep 23, 2019

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the crazy peak to peak voltages that EVGA were using for this test, no decent modern PSU should be coming anywhere near those numbers

xkm1948 · Sep 23, 2019

FreedomEclipse said:
I was just thinking this actually. cables coming out of the bottom of the card rather than the side would make for a cleaner nicer looking build. Sadly it currently costs about $20-25 here so its currently a waste of money for something that does little to nothing.

Deals on this pops up every now and then on Amazon.

Nuckles56 said:
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the crazy peak to peak voltages that EVGA were using for this test, no decent modern PSU should be coming anywhere near those numbers

IMO this thing’s main sale point is cable management.

jonnyGURU · Sep 23, 2019

Nuckles56 said:
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the crazy peak to peak voltages that EVGA were using for this test, no decent modern PSU should be coming anywhere near those numbers

Probably an EVGA "W" Series.

Ferrum Master · Sep 23, 2019

They are measuring voltage sag or transient response. They state 1V on the 12V rail... the 1.2V are the ATX spec 10% max there should be. Basically I don't know where they found such shit PSU with hair thick wires attached to it. Even vintage supplies doesn't deviate that much.

I understand PR crap and so on... but... man... this is schizophrenia coming out of EVGA. Snake oil at its finest... or even more, like false claims.

Valantar · Sep 23, 2019

Nuckles56 said:
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the crazy peak to peak voltages that EVGA were using for this test, no decent modern PSU should be coming anywhere near those numbers

Yeah, that's nearly 10x the ATX spec for 12V ripple. Ridiculous.

Ferrum Master · Sep 23, 2019

Valantar said:
Yeah, that's nearly 10x the ATX spec for 12V ripple. Ridiculous.

Nah nah. It is not ripple. It is just voltage sag.

Valantar · Sep 23, 2019

Ferrum Master said:
Nah nah. It is not ripple. It is just voltage sag.

You mean voltage drop over the power cables? That doesn't measure like what we see in those graphs (those are spruced-up scope shots of riople/noise), and capacitors in the cables does nothing to combat that. You need sense wires and a PSU capable of monitoring them to combat wire voltage drop. And speaking of peak-to-peak voltages makes zero sense if you're talking about voltage drop.

Ferrum Master · Sep 23, 2019

Valantar said:
You mean voltage drop over the power cables? That doesn't measure like what we see in those graphs (those are spruced-up scope shots of riople/noise), and capacitors in the cables does nothing to combat that. You need sense wires and a PSU capable of monitoring them to combat wire voltage drop. And speaking of peak-to-peak voltages makes zero sense if you're talking about voltage drop.

It states. Well it is written totally in awkward manner, but the numbers only make sense about voltage sag(Transient Response), when doing instant high burst current loads for the GPU. Crmaris does this always, albeit in different manner, without capacities at all. In reality the GPU itself has those caps, also making these claims a fairy tail. Unless the PSU is bad/old such sag doesn't happen.

The 12V line going into graphics card without a PowerLink under load rates a Peak-to-Peak voltage of 1,008mV, while the 12V line going into the graphics card with a PowerLink is only 728mV. That's nearly a 28% reduction in voltage variation from the external power source!

Also some rubbish, there is no power graph.

~~seen in power graphs~~

randomUser · Sep 23, 2019

xkm1948 said:
I got one for $5 free shipping last uear. Good for cable management. And yeah you can paint that EVGA logo to match your case theme for sure. I like it

Please give a link or a name. I couldn't find anything on aliexpress.

zlobby · Sep 23, 2019

jonnyGURU said:
Probably an EVGA "W" Series.

I bow down to only 2 men - JonnyGURU and Johnny Sins!

randomUser · Sep 23, 2019

I have a seasonic PSU and it states it has 0.5% ripple on primary 12V rail and +2% ripple on secondary rail.
So its 60mV on primary rail and 240mV on secondary. Will this thing reduce ripple even more?

xkm1948 · Sep 23, 2019

randomUser said:
Please give a link or a name. I couldn't find anything on aliexpress.

??? This is the SKU i got. It was on sale for just $5 and free shipping

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/comments/9vm00l

Keullo-e · Sep 23, 2019

LocutusH said:
What if they just dont put the power connectors on the top, but at the end of the card, by default?
I know, they couldnt sell an additional piece of plastic, for shameless high price.

Back in the day they were at the back, though we need to go over 10 years back to the Radeon HD 4000 era.

Valantar · Sep 23, 2019

Ferrum Master said:
It states. Well it is written totally in awkward manner, but the numbers only make sense about voltage sag(Transient Response), when doing instant high burst current loads for the GPU. Crmaris does this always, albeit in different manner, without capacities at all. In reality the GPU itself has those caps, also making these claims a fairy tail. Unless the PSU is bad/old such sag doesn't happen.

Also some rubbish, there is no power graph.

I disagree with your interpretation. They clearly state that this is supposed to be "under load" (I interpret this as a gaming load or similar relatively even and high CPU+GPU load) in which case significant transient loads are relatively unlikely and not likely to make much of a difference due to the significant stress already on the PSU. Also, again, the stylized "see the difference" PR shots can only be interpreted as stylized representations of scope shots of ripple/noise - they certainly don't show any transient response, but rather try to show that one has less ripple than the other. Thirdly, mVp-p is normally a term used for noise and ripple, not other voltage fluctuations in DC. Transient response is generally not described in those terms. Heck, the PR copy even explicitly says this is to filter/suppress noise/ripple. They just went with some downright stupid numbers trying to demonstrate this.

ncrs said:
So it's just 2 capacitors inside all that plastic? Pretty sure there's enough of those on the cards already...

Well, two capacitors, four PCIe power connectors (two male, two female) and some wires to be precise. But yes, essentially. The main point of this is definitely cleaning up cabling.

Ferrum Master · Sep 23, 2019

Valantar said:
I disagree with your interpretation. They clearly state that this is supposed to be "under load"

Have a peek in our PSU review section I linked, and what graphs are there. You can draw it also like that if you look through a scope.

There cannot be a 1V ripple anyways... they aren't taking mushrooms or LSD...

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