risers and pci-e 3.0

[Sneaky2k]

Hi.

 

I own a Lenovo ThinkCentre M91p (453A8G) and I recently got a GTX1060 to run with it, however the videocard is too big for the case and I would like to get a new tower case and mount the videocard vertically using a pci riser.

 

I live in Romania, sadly I didn't have the luck of receiving any decent answer from any of the multiple shops I contacted, most don't even know what a riser is or what cases would allow vertical mount, I know is sad for 2019 but sadly it is what it is.

After I spent lots of hours looking for solutions on internet, I found a Thermaltake view 27 case that is in the budget and from what I gather it would fit my motherboard, but I cannot find any shielded riser in stock, just cheap miners ones.

Looking around the internet, I found many PCI-E 3.0 on amazon and similar sites, would I be able to use that on my current motherboard ? I do not know what the 3.0 stands for or if my motherboard supports that, after downloading CPU-Z and looking around I noticed it only shows "PCI-Express" at Version and 16x for the max speed.

 

Questions is : Can my motherboard support PCI-E 3.0 and if not is there any other way to mount my GPU Vertically ?

 

Thanks any advance if you can find a minute and help me out.

 

 

[zombienerd]

The version doesn't matter, honestly. 

 

That's just telling you the maximum speed.  Even if your board was PCIe 2.0, the 3.0 riser would work just fine, and the same in reverse as well.

[Sneaky2k]

2 minutes ago, zombienerd said:

The version doesn't matter, honestly. 

 

That's just telling you the maximum speed.  Even if your board was PCIe 2.0, the 3.0 riser would work just fine, and the same in reverse as well.

Thanks for your answer ! I got confused by that 3.0, I thought it was something to do with the socket/slot from motherboard and that the riser wouldn't fit, I do not have much knowledge when it comes to that. Thanks once again!