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PCIE riser cable, Phanteks or Linkup's PCIE 4 series?

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2019/10/24 13:56:41 (permalink)
Looking to pick up a riser cable for my case swap to finally do vertical mount on my GPU.  Wondering if anyone has input on brands.  I was going to do the Linkup one on Amazon because it's supposedly PCIE gen 4 compliant so I could run that and leave the board in PCIE 4 mode in case I add in an SSD/etc. later on or eventual PCIE 4 cards come out.  It's a bit long for the Phanteks GPU mount at 300mm vs the phanteks one is 220mm and would only have a little bit of extra cable to deal with.  What do you guys think?  Phanteks or the Linkup one?  The Linkup one is also quite a bit more $$$ because of all the extra shielding in it.

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    flyinion
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    Re: PCIE riser cable, Phanteks or Linkup's PCIE 4 series? 2019/11/06 15:51:56 (permalink)
    Well, I went with the Phanteks 220mm Premium for now.  It's the perfect length for the built in GPU vertical mount in the Enthoo Luxe 2 (vs the bracket mount) but if I end up having PCIE problems later due to adding gen 4 devices I'll try the LinkUp 30cm one and have to deal with a bit of extra cable to fold up or something.

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    Re: PCIE riser cable, Phanteks or Linkup's PCIE 4 series? 2019/11/06 15:56:44 (permalink)
    Use a sharpie marker as a tool to get a nice radius on your Bends.
     
    Sharp bends, kinks & such destroy these PCIe cable & can also cause cross-talk issues

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    Re: PCIE riser cable, Phanteks or Linkup's PCIE 4 series? 2019/11/06 16:49:22 (permalink)
    Cool GTX
    Use a sharpie marker as a tool to get a nice radius on your Bends.
     
    Sharp bends, kinks & such destroy these PCIe cable & can also cause cross-talk issues


    Thanks, I'll remember that.  Oddly enough though, a couple months ago when I tried to do a vertical mount in my old H500M case I tried out the 30cm LinkUp PCIE4 cable and they actually send it folded in half.  They say it's fine to do that to theirs, but maybe they're using a different construction.  Those were double cables and tons of shielding and shielding wires.

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