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Title: pci risers help Post by: chume on November 13, 2011, 06:19:11 AM I am new to all of this and i was wondering if I could use these extenders with pci 2.0 cards. http://www.ebay.com/itm/PCI-E-PCI-Express-16X-Riser-Card-Extender-Cable-Ribbon-/140584819960?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20bb821cf8
Title: Re: pci risers help Post by: MoonShad0w384 on November 14, 2011, 12:10:16 PM Yes, those are fine for PCIe 2.0. I've used similar ones in one of my own rigs.
Title: Re: pci risers help Post by: chume on November 14, 2011, 02:17:10 PM thank you for the help
Title: Re: pci risers help Post by: MoonShad0w384 on November 15, 2011, 06:52:28 AM No worries :)
The other thing about riser cables is that apparently you're not supposed to have the total length of the PCIe signal lines longer than 19cm, which means no joining two riser cables together. I haven't tried, though. |