riser card/cable PCI x16 Riser card/cable

[Hubba]

Hi guys,

 

This is my first time posting here after I didnt find anything that really fits my needs.

I want to start a little business and i really need a reliable and quality source of good riser cables/cards to start producing my product.

I want to connect VGAs which might go up to 1080, 1070, Titans, Furys etc. but as there is not really space where they go. Thats why i really need a reliable and maybe not insanely expensive riser cable.
Amazon just deliverd results with Ratings like 3.0 max and the comments were horrible. (which might just be because people are dumb from time to time but its a concern anyways)
 

I remembered Linus vid with the under the Table PC and his riser cable was working fine like always...
but i dont know where he got those and how they are named...
can anyone help me?

 

Only thing I found that looks promising (i hope alu is kinda coated or sth like this):

Sorry for the german Website: Delock Riser Card for PCIe (41800)

http://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/Delock-Riser-Card-fuer-PCIe--41800-_835361.html

Thanks

[wildgg]

hey, Welcome to the forum!

 

yesterday i made a similar post about risers, most people say it's fine aslong you get a quality one ofcours.

so i can't really tell wich ones are good but i ordered the ''Hicom PCI-Express x16 Riser'' and il let you know how it impact the performance at all.

 

picture of the riser i ordered: 

[Hubba]

This seems like one i saw online.
I would be very happy if you could test it for me.
Thanks for letting me know
tell me when it arrives

 

Thanks

[Stefan1024]

Wellcome to the forum!

 

Up to about 20 cm the cheap ribbon cable based once are fine.

For longer connections you need impedance matched cables like the one from 3M. You can buy them at digikey.com (search for pcie riser). I use some 50 cm once and the GPU works like directly plugged into the socket. The only downside is: about 80$ per riser.

[Hubba]

Thanks for the answer!
Thats what i tought but the ratings on the selling sites were bad ... maybe they kinked the cable near the soldering points or are 2 dumb for a cable ...

anyways thanks for the help! if anyone else thinks he might add anything please do so every bit of information is a lot of help as i didnt use riser cables up to now

80$ for a high qualitiy 50 cm riser seems ok, not cheap at all, but ok

[Stefan1024]

1 hour ago, Hubba said:

Thanks for the answer!
Thats what i tought but the ratings on the selling sites were bad ... maybe they kinked the cable near the soldering points or are 2 dumb for a cable ...

anyways thanks for the help! if anyone else thinks he might add anything please do so every bit of information is a lot of help as i didnt use riser cables up to now

80$ for a high qualitiy 50 cm riser seems ok, not cheap at all, but ok

Just have a look at the cable befor you plug it in. Some are so badly soldered that there is a short circuit. Not likely, but I saw people on the formum having problems.

[wildgg]

On 1-6-2016 at 2:00 PM, Hubba said:

This seems like one i saw online.
I would be very happy if you could test it for me.
Thanks for letting me know
tell me when it arrives

 

Thanks

hey,

 

cable should come in within the next 6hours orso,

i did some benchmarks without the riser, firestrike,valley benchmark and gtaV benchmark.

will let you know later today if it makes any difference with the riser i bought,

[The Flying Sloth]

Only buy shielded risers, unshielded ones never work well. I tried to do a wall mount build with an unshielded cable and the picture quality was TERRIBLE with a capital shit.

[wildgg]

alright here are my results before and after using a pcie riser. riser i used: ( Hicom PCI-Express x16 Riser  ) 

 

Tested with a evga gtx970SC 1380mhz~  on a asus 144hz monitor.

 

3dmark firestrike before:10380 (overclocked 1506mhz: 11249)
valley benchmark  before:score:2265 maxtemp:75C
GTAV benchmark    before:109fps avg

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3dmark firestrike with riser:10119  (overclocked 1506mhz: 11086)
valley benchmark  with riser:score: 2353 maxtemp:75C
GTAV benchmark  with riser:105.5fps avg

 

every test was done 3 times to get the best average score.

i had scores from firestrike with a overclock running so only firestrike was tested with overclocking.

valley score went up a little but this is random not every score is the same.

the only game i can test right now is GTA V, fps went down with 3.5fps on average.

 

basically it won't impact performance.

also my gpu is mounted vertical in my case and temps did not change.

 

hope this helps