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Title: Short PCI-E 16x Risers work but Long ones don't?
Post by: joshv06 on December 17, 2013, 12:23:49 PM
So I have some risers for my R9 290 video cards. The long ones are finicky. Some work in some ports. But the short risers work all the time.

If I mod them to make them powered risers, should I be good to go?

Thanks


Title: Re: Short PCI-E 16x Risers work but Long ones don't?
Post by: vm1990 on December 17, 2013, 11:39:52 PM
it should work but it could be the long ones are cheap and not carrying the signal well enough over the distance


Title: Re: Short PCI-E 16x Risers work but Long ones don't?
Post by: DrG on December 19, 2013, 03:29:18 PM
How many ribbons strands per pin?  Cheap risers only have 2, the better ones have 3.