New to crypto mining, question on risers PCIe

[ShallowTech]

I was told to check the mining support section but could not find it... hopefully this will be the correct place. Quick history, worked in IT for a long time. I wanted to start mining to get familiar with it and to produce and hold some coin. So currently mining on a 1 GPU home gaming PC ;-) waiting on a second GPU.

So questions. I am new to cryptocurrency but not to IT. I started doing some mining on my gaming PC and decided to invest in a second GPU to increase my mining. I am really doing it to get familiar with the process and to exchange/sit on some coins. I had some questions about the PCIe USB risers. It looks like they drop the x16 slot to x1, I assume this decrease in bandwidth does not impact the GPU calculations/mining in anyway, is this correct? What is a good manufacture to use if I wanted to pick up one of these risers? Does anyone make external GPU chassis with additional cooling/power?

Thank you.

[shuby1569]

I assume this decrease in bandwidth does not impact the GPU calculations/mining in anyway, is this correct?

I am new to this too so I tested it both ways and no there is not an impact.

What is a good manufacture to use if I wanted to pick up one of these risers?

this is what I used: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GU94QSQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[kolloh]

For future reference, the mining section of the forum is located here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=14.0