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Title: Risers: what is this trend to remove them and attach the GPU to the mobo? Post by: alexrossi on October 03, 2017, 02:21:15 PM I saw on the philipma thread a lot of questioning about not using risers.
From what i saw and read, there is a lot of concerning about burned risers in the long run (and I not understood if also the GPU is at risk) Can someone elaborate more and post eventually horror stories about blowed risers, etc... ? What is the actual safest riser to use with the actual GPUs (1060, 1070) ? Title: Re: Risers: what is this trend to remove them and attach the GPU to the mobo? Post by: leonix007 on October 03, 2017, 02:33:01 PM one bad side for using riser is that if you accidentally plugged in wrong positions, the PCIEx1 cable riser can be easily plugged to pci-E x 16 slot of the mainboard even if not in correct positions and may cause short circuits, but my bad experience with risers is that I use 4pin molex psu cable powering up 3 Risers wit GPU Rx480 8GB, and ended up burning the cable connected to PSU. ;D
Title: Re: Risers: what is this trend to remove them and attach the GPU to the mobo? Post by: alexrossi on October 03, 2017, 02:38:55 PM but my bad experience with risers is that I use 4pin molex psu cable powering up 3 Risers wit GPU Rx480 8GB, and ended up burning the cable connected to PSU. ;D Basically you have used a 3x splitter over a single molex cable? I also read that sata to power the riser is generally a bad idea, this is correct? Title: Re: Risers: what is this trend to remove them and attach the GPU to the mobo? Post by: leonix007 on October 03, 2017, 02:51:28 PM but my bad experience with risers is that I use 4pin molex psu cable powering up 3 Risers wit GPU Rx480 8GB, and ended up burning the cable connected to PSU. ;D Basically you have used a 3x splitter over a single molex cable? I also read that sata to power the riser is generally a bad idea, this is correct? nope, the PSU cable molex already has 3 molex capable, but were not design to handle much power, imagine 300watts for 3 GPU passing by with that wire, 2 riser with GPU is fine with single cable connecting molex, I am currently using it, I do also have Sata risers, no bad experience about them but I dont use them to power up 2 risers with GPU. its only one to one. |