Vertically Mounting GPU

[KaineT]

I am going to do a custom loop for my new Aorus RTX 2080 TI Xtreme and i was thinking of vertically mounting it vertically in my Mastercase Pro 5 but I need something supports more than one PCI slot for my sound card. Will the Lian Li PC-O11D-1X fit in my case with light modding maybe? 
Also is there any performance loss with riser cables?

[Ciuwas]

4 minutes ago, KaineT said:

I am going to do a custom loop for my new Aorus RTX 2080 TI Xtreme and i was thinking of vertically mounting it vertically in my Mastercase Pro 5 but I need something supports more than one PCI slot for my sound card. Will the Lian Li PC-O11D-1X fit in my case with light modding maybe? 
Also is there any performance loss with riser cables?

The loss in this predicament would be you losing the rest of your PCI-E slots. I would recommend seeing if you can try and get a custom GPU mount from a reputable modder like https://mnpctech.com/vertical-gpu-video-card-installation-mount/ mnpctech which would look cooler in a case mod, and maybe you'll be able to mount it so you can find pci-e space for your sound card. But to answer your question with riser cables. It depends on which riser cable you get. To lose no performance would be a pci-e 16x extender which would be more expensive. Also, don't use the Lian-Li vertical GPU mount if you're going with a traditional V-GPU mount, go with something from cooler master. Mainly because Lian-Li's VPU mounts are expensive as hell for no r e a s o n.

[NineEyeRon]

I’ve never used more than one PCIe slot in my life and I’ve been gaming on my own PC for near 15 years. Onboard sound and networking plus a GPU.

 

I moved from full ATX to mITX as such and never looked back.

 

 

[KaineT]

1 minute ago, NineEyeRon said:

I’ve never used more than one PCIe slot in my life and I’ve been gaming on my own PC for near 15 years. Onboard sound and networking plus a GPU.

 

I moved from full ATX to mITX as such and never looked back.

 

 

My on-board isn't a 7.1 or a Xi-Fi...

[phoenixflower]

Just now, NineEyeRon said:

I’ve never used more than one PCIe slot in my life and I’ve been gaming on my own PC for near 15 years. Onboard sound and networking plus a GPU.

Heya there NIne!

 

Your use case is perfectly valid; however, you'll find that plenty of reasons exist to utilize the other PCI-E slots (otherwise the board vendors would've stopped making it available in their lineup).  PCI-E storage, PCI-E USB, Sound Cards, extra network cards and more recent years thanks to AMD creating fully visualized workstations.  In some cases like with the x570 Taichi it even supports thunderbolt 3.0 add-in cards.

 

The Ryzen platform offers features that would normally be limited to enterprise environments such as SR-IOV with true hardware support ath x470/x570 level.

 

I personally got tired of dual booting, and it allows me to not have to turn my computer on/off while switching between LInux, Windows, custom operating systems that can boot off of UEFI and virtualized Hackintosh.

 

 

[KaineT]

38 minutes ago, Ciuwas said:

The loss in this predicament would be you losing the rest of your PCI-E slots. I would recommend seeing if you can try and get a custom GPU mount from a reputable modder like https://mnpctech.com/vertical-gpu-video-card-installation-mount/ mnpctech which would look cooler in a case mod, and maybe you'll be able to mount it so you can find pci-e space for your sound card. But to answer your question with riser cables. It depends on which riser cable you get. To lose no performance would be a pci-e 16x extender which would be more expensive. Also, don't use the Lian-Li vertical GPU mount if you're going with a traditional V-GPU mount, go with something from cooler master. Mainly because Lian-Li's VPU mounts are expensive as hell for no r e a s o n.

The MNPCTech stuff are cool but they won't allow me to use more than one PCI slot perse. Coolerrmaster used to have the vertical mount with multiple slots made by Icewolf but i can't seem to find that anymore...

[phoenixflower]

Just now, KaineT said:

I am going to do a custom loop for my new Aorus RTX 2080 TI Xtreme and i was thinking of vertically mounting it vertically in my Mastercase Pro 5 but I need something supports more than one PCI slot for my sound card. Will the Lian Li PC-O11D-1X fit in my case with light modding maybe? 
Also is there any performance loss with riser cables?

https://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-Gaming-Black-Extender-AC-053-CN1OTN-C1/dp/B06Y1SX7ZN?th=1

 

 

thermaltake makes one of the best riser cables on the market.  I've used them in servers, personal rigs and have no qualms recommending them.  They even look stylish.  If your case supports vertical mounting and has the built hardware to support the GPU the above cable will work perfectly fine for your use case.  Make sure to get the correctly sized one.  Do not get the smallest one as it has been reported to have problems (300mm+ have no encountered these problems).  Maybe it was a quality control thing, but I would stay on the safe side.  Linus even did a video on this with that exact cable.

[KaineT]

8 hours ago, phoenixflower said:

https://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-Gaming-Black-Extender-AC-053-CN1OTN-C1/dp/B06Y1SX7ZN?th=1

 

 

thermaltake makes one of the best riser cables on the market.  I've used them in servers, personal rigs and have no qualms recommending them.  They even look stylish.  If your case supports vertical mounting and has the built hardware to support the GPU the above cable will work perfectly fine for your use case.  Make sure to get the correctly sized one.  Do not get the smallest one as it has been reported to have problems (300mm+ have no encountered these problems).  Maybe it was a quality control thing, but I would stay on the safe side.  Linus even did a video on this with that exact cable.

Thanks for the recommendation, will definitely check this one out, problem is I still need to find a bracket that will do the job of holding by GPU and soundcard that will fit the Mastercase pro 5.

[Ciuwas]

On 8/11/2019 at 11:18 AM, KaineT said:

Thanks for the recommendation, will definitely check this one out, problem is I still need to find a bracket that will do the job of holding by GPU and soundcard that will fit the Mastercase pro 5.

No Problem! Good luck!

[phoenixflower]

On 8/11/2019 at 10:18 AM, KaineT said:

Thanks for the recommendation, will definitely check this one out, problem is I still need to find a bracket that will do the job of holding by GPU and soundcard that will fit the Mastercase pro 5.

What I would personally do, but this may defeat the purpose of your deployment is to simply put the case on the side that makes the motherboard become parallel with the ground.  That way gravity is pushing your PCI-E devices into the slots instead of yanking them down.  You'll also find that this will significantly reduce PCB flexing and thus will increase the board life of your motherboard.