One of the big challenges of building a PC is routing cables and while that process has been made easier with modern chassis design that wasn't always the case. Believe it or not there are some cases didn't have room behind the motherboard tray for excess cables meaning that routing cables was an exercise of minimizing airflow obstructions and figuring out where to put the excess. Of course these days there are a variety of ways to handle cable management from creative routing behind the motherboard to elaborate cable dressing using paracord or decorative cable extensions.

Cable dressing and sleeving is largely a response to having a wires visible through a side window and modders wanted them to look nice.

In this review I'll be looking at a new product from EVGA called the EVGA PowerLink. PowerLink is a new kind of cable extension that mounts directly to your video card and relocates the power connections closer to the motherboard. This allows you to minimize visible cables in your system and reduces cable weight on your video card.