Review on 🔌 EVGA PowerLink: The Ultimate Solution for NVIDIA Founders Edition and EVGA GeForce RTX 20 Series GPUs by Scoony Taker

Good, simple, does exactly what it's supposed to do. It accepts any combination of 6-pin and 8-pin inputs, connects all 12V lines in parallel, and then outputs them. This results in the power being delivered to both inputs fairly evenly and without distortion. For outputs, it defaults to 8+8, and there's a 6-pin output that you can use instead of 8-pin. The leaflet in the package says it's possible to request a second 6 pin output if you have a 6+6 card. I have a Mac Pro 5.1 with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 980Ti with a 6 pin and a 8-pin auxiliary power input . . Watching the current through the iStat menu, I saw that one draws 7.5-8 amps and the other 5-5.5 amps. With this connection it now draws about 6-6.5 amps from both. The Mac Pro will shut down if the power draw on any of the auxiliary PCIe power ports is too high to protect itself, which I soon encountered several times. after I received and tested the card. To prevent this from happening while playing Windows games, I used MSI Afterburner to limit the card's power consumption to 90% of the maximum. Once I set that up, I no longer experienced abnormal shutdowns, but it also meant there was still power available that I couldn't use. After installing PowerLink and seeing how it balances power draws across both auxiliary links, I updated the Afterburner configuration so the card can draw 100% power and run at full power again. After many, many hours of gaming, I have yet to encounter an unexpected shutdown. Update: Made some screenshots showing power distribution with and without PowerLink installed. While going through this process, I found a small annoyance: it's difficult to remove PowerLink from a graphics card once it's installed. The clip holding it to the card cannot be depressed to remove it. Instead, you have to take something small like a plastic spatula and slightly tilt the clamp to loosen it. Not difficult, but it took me a few minutes to realize I had to do this. I also opened up PowerLink and took some pictures of the inside if anyone is interested. It does a little bit more than just paralleling all the 12V pins, but not much. One of the main things you can see in the numbers is how uneven the power consumption was without the PowerLink installed. It drew 8 amps on line A and only 4.5-5 amps on line B. Browsing the forums I came across a theory that the sensor will not report more than 8 amps while the protection mechanism is working (turns the machine off) . 10+ amps. If this is true then the 8 amps shown on the Boost A connector may actually be slightly higher. I think the maximum difference I noticed between them was about 0.5 amps for a short time, but usually it was about 0.2 amps or less. In fact, the difference was enough to make you notice it, but no more. That's still a lot better than the 4-5 amp difference without PowerLink. In any case, I am very satisfied with PowerLink. If you have one of the older Mac Pros (5.1 or earlier) and want to use one of the newer graphics cards, get them. While I can't guarantee that this will prevent the computer from abnormally shutting down due to excess power from one of the extra PCIe power connectors, it will absolutely reduce the chances.