Mining riser as PCIe riser

[Andreaskhoi]

My cheapo ass I building a sff system, need a riser. Could either spend ~40 euros for a new riser locally, ~10 euros for a AliExpress one (don't have the time for to wait) or get a cheap mining riser locally for ~2 euros. So would a mining riser work as a PCIe riser. Not planing to use anything too powerful, only a 1060 6g

[RONOTHAN##]

Those mining riser only do PCIe x1, IIRC only gen 1 as well (might be Gen 2 though). That would significantly reduce performance of everything but a GT 710. Unless you're just using the 1060 as a display adapter/GPU encode, you want to have some more bandwidth.

[Andreaskhoi]

18 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Those mining riser only do PCIe x1, IIRC only gen 1 as well (might be Gen 2 though). That would significantly reduce performance of everything but a GT 710. Unless you're just using the 1060 as a display adapter/GPU encode, you want to have some more bandwidth.

How would a 1x gen 3 riser do?

 

[RONOTHAN##]

2 minutes ago, Andreaskhoi said:

How would a 1x gen 3 riser do?

 

Still pretty bad though better than a Gen 2, but they don't exist AFAIK, at least cheaply from miners. Most miners went for the USB riser cards which top out at 625MB/s for bandwidth as they're using generic USB 3 due to their low costs, ease of routing, and the fact that mining ethereum didn't care about the PCIe bandwidth so the bigger higher end risers were pointless. 

 

You really want at the absolute minimum PCIe Gen 3x4, and ideally PCIe Gen 3x8 or higher. Spend the extra $20-30 on a good one, it is worth the extra performance and the fact you won't have to buy a new riser once you upgrade your GPU. 

[Andreaskhoi]

6 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Still pretty bad though better than a Gen 2, but they don't exist AFAIK, at least cheaply from miners. Most miners went for the USB riser cards which top out at 625MB/s for bandwidth as they're using generic USB 3 due to their low costs, ease of routing, and the fact that mining ethereum didn't care about the PCIe bandwidth so the bigger higher end risers were pointless. 

 

You really want at the absolute minimum PCIe Gen 3x4, and ideally PCIe Gen 3x8 or higher. Spend the extra $20-30 on a good one, it is worth the extra performance and the fact you won't have to buy a new riser once you upgrade your GPU. 

Don't plan on upgrading my gpu cuz this single fan 1060 barely fits and the psu is at 275w, do you think a 16x riser from Ali would do?

[RONOTHAN##]

15 minutes ago, Andreaskhoi said:

do you think a 16x riser from Ali would do?

Probably, though I don't have any experience with them to say for sure yes or no.