Hi giadartis.
To answer you.
Yes it is safe to install even if you only have one card.
It will not harm or overvolt your pci slots,i am using it with just one card and have had no ploblems.

Thanks Enigma.
 
@KMoore:  Well im currious to see if will help stabilize my card more during overclocking because of something that just happened to me while gaming in the Crysis 2 multiplayer demo.  My overclocked card reverted to idle mode clocks 4min in to gameplay.  Now i run my overclocked card through OC scanner which said i had no artifacts.  Also between crysis warhead and BFBC2 i have had no issues running it for hours at those OC settings.  But when i play the demo in the factory clock settings, i dont have any problems.
 
So im wondering why and if my psu is not doing the job properly, im wondering if this will help stop that annoying occurrence, because the older cards before fermi used to use a lot of power from the pci-e slots.
 

alright thanks alot.  I will have to buy one anyway now because my friend who has GTX470's in SLI asked me to send him one and he is in germany for another 7months on an exchange program. thanks again.
 
PS. props to your folding setup

So I just got my Power Boost and all I can say is WOW, more than what I expected.
The box was big enough for 3 full size video cards and weighed almost as my 295. I opened this box to see a tone of shipping peanuts covering another slightly smaller box. SO...... I get in that box and find a bubble ESD bag, OK. I then go in to that bag and FINALLY get to the Power Boost. Which had its own little packaging.
I am just in absolute awe at how much shipping went in to protecting a wire thats 5 inches long, a Molex connecter and a small one inch PCB.
Not to diss the company that I LOVE for computer parts but WOW I Would have rather had a 2 foot long wire on this than all that packaging.

Available in Europe now:
http://eu.evga.com/produc...%20Hardware&uc=EUR

Big box wasted on this tiny cord
But it saved me from having to RMA

chuntergb

is this needed on an sli le ?

Only needed if you are running a System that is overclocked with high end SLI Video Cards. GTX470/570 SLI and up are the biggest causes for concern. If you are just running one card you should have no reason to concern your self.
I have SLI 470's and not to worried about a melt down. I plan to pick one up eventually, just no hurry...

well i'll be putting 2 480's in soon so will probably pick one up then.cheers

Ta1k0n

dakon

I ordered one to give it a try as I think it is a unique product.

Now for the problem.  Why oh why, would this ship out signature required when the signature required box was not checked?  I can only imagine that the shipping costs more than the product itself.  This should of just gone via USPS.

I have had more problems with shipping errors over the years with EVGA than any other company I have ever dealt with.

Once again, can we get this fixed so I do not have to drive 45 minutes to pick up a 20 buck item...

+1

This has been changed, that goes for RMA's as well.

I bought one of these out of curiosity. I have an Asus P9X79 Pro with 2 EVGA GTX 560 TI's in SLI at stock clocks and volts. CPU is an 8-core extra-special with a 150W TDP and a 9.5% OC for 3286MHz. It draws 530-560W at the wall when running Folding@Home with -smp 16 and 2 GPU clients. It has no additional power connectors besides the 24-pin and the 8-pin 12V.
 
I was concerned about just how much was being pulled through the motherboard's power connectors.
 
I bought an 8-pin extension to plug into my PC Power&Cooling Silencer 910W's extra 8-pin connector. I spliced 2 pairs of the 8-pin to the EVGA Power Boost and the other 2 pairs to the 12V molex to power my DD CPX-Pro pump.
 
With a multimeter wired in parallel on the 12V line on the Power Boost, I get 0.27A at idle, and 0.88A when running Folding@Home. When running Left4Dead2 maxed out, load varies between 0.40-0.93A.
 
Same meter measuring the ground leads sees similar numbers, maybe 0.05A lower. Makes sense given that there are more ground pins on the motherboard's power connector than 12V pins.
 
Motherboard's sensors under load used to read 12.000V. Now I get 12.096-12.192V.
 
No gain in any clocks. Still stable as before.

yes

The Molex connector simpley connects 12V to that part of the board, to the traces that connect to the PCIe slot through the card, the power boost just connects it to the pins insted of the board, you get the same results namley a second source, regardless of which you use. The power boost is you molex connector if you bord doesn't have one, ( or if you cannot use the one it has)  





There is a third option outlined in a thread here http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=749507&high=PCIe+power+mod  that tells you how to modify your board and connect a molex directley to the board, but that would void your warranty.
 
 
If you go this route, Make sure you isolate conections to prevent shorts, either with electrical tape, sleving, or Nonconductive glue.
http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=749507&high=PCIe+power+mod

So  when I bring up everest it shows my 12v at 11.67v if I use cpuid hardware monitor it shows 0.90 to 1.15v,So I was wondering if  the power boost would fix this? I have a new coolermaster 800w silent gold psu,I also got these reading with my old psu and I thought  a new psu would fix them but nope :) I have a older system which is  a Q9450@3.7Ghz 8GB gskill ripjawsX 1600 ram 1.5v 7-7-7-22-2t a gtx460@820Mhz and a evga gts 250 physX card plus 64Gb SSD for OS and a 500&320Gb wd HDD's for games and junk all on a Gigabyte EP45t-DS3R, SO what do you all think would this help me get a 12v reading ? Also as a side note I have a second psu installed that just runs two coolit eliminators that cool my cpu and soon to run a third eliminator to cool a gtx 275 that I want to add as a phsX/folding card to replace the gts250, no sli as it is a cfx board only:( but can I run the power boot off the second psu?
Thanks in advance for any help

what do we think of the power boost with one evga gtx680? i had one in use with my evga 570 SLI and am curious if there is any use to keep it installed? 
 

quick ?
dose this help with oc;ing?
like can it help with getting an oc stable?