Amazon.com: Customer reviews: High Speed PCI Express Riser Card PCI-E 3.0 x 16 Riser Card Extender Ribbon Flexible Extension Cable 180 Degree for Computer Graphic Cards (180°)

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No tight bends

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 28, 2022

I should have thought about my limitations for space with this extension. because it's so rigid compared to thinner extensions, I wasn't able to use it within a tight space. I'm using it for a 1050 horizontally in a small shallow case instead of a low profile card. Mostly because I bought the 2GB card a few years ago without realizing the reason for the lower price. Pairing it with a Ryzen 3 2200G which was is probably just good enough for a media center browsing and streaming. The 1050 bench marks average around 27% around double the 2200G. This is just for a media center and light gaming anyway. The GPU I had to take the cover off and use velcro strips to hold the fan on. 20 cm with the thinner extension might at least loop under the GPU and mount the other end to the PSU side. Maybe with just more velcro. I didn't see any shorter 5-6" extensions I could use.

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S.L. Pierce

Fried my gpus.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 28, 2022

Do not buy I never write reviews but this not only fried one of my cards, but to check to make sure it wasn't just the card, tested another with it and it fried it as well. There goes $1000.

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No tight bends

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 28, 2022

Size: 25CMVerified Purchase

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David Rose

Well thought design, very flexible...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 24, 2022

Size: 25CMVerified Purchase

The split ribbon design makes this flexible enough for most any positioning but I was expecting a 90°

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Trebor

Good low cost cable

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 4, 2021

Size: 25CMVerified Purchase

Working well so far in a Cougar Dark Blader 7 case with an Asus Prime Z490-A motherboard and MSI RTX 3070 GPU. I had a few artifacts appear on my 4K monitor twice during the week that I have used the cable. I set the motherboard to PCIe3 versus the Auto setting and the artifacts so far have not reappeared.

Update: I have another of these cables installed in a second PC build using an MSI Z490-A Pro motherboard with a MSI RTX 3070 GPU and the cable works flawlessly with PCIe3 set in Bios. Both of the builds are in Cougar Dark Blader cases which have built-in support for vertical GPU mounting. In both of these builds I have been able to fit expansion cards into the motherboard under the GPU cable without interference issues. In the next few months I am going to test the cable in a build that has PCIe4. If it still works well in that build set at PCIe4 (higher bandwidth) then I will have to say in my experience this is the best for the money riser cable that I have found available.

Second update: I tested this cable using an MSI Gaming X Trio RTX 3070 video card installed on an MSI mpg Z590 gaming edge wifi motherboard with a intel I9-11900K CPU. The testing software I used is 3DMARK PCI Express feature test. The results were PCIe bandwidth of 24.37 GB. From what I found researching the internet this bandwidth score appears to be inline with what to expect for PCIe 4.0. The cable appears to be PCIe 4.0 ready to me. FYI, I now have this cable in 3 builds and so far no problems that were not resolved by correct BIOS settings. Of course we know results may vary from build to build unfortunately, but so far I am very satisfied with the cable.

Third update: After additional testing for longer periods of time I started to encounter random computer lockups when using PCIe 4.0. Further testing leads me to believe although the cable works for short periods of time at PCIe 4.0 it does not seem to sustain that ability. Regardless, the cable has reliably been working at PCIe 3.0 which it is advertised to do so I am not going to lower the rating I gave it. FYI there appears to be virtually no overall computer performance difference in the computer benchmarking scores using PCIe 3.0 versus PCIe 4.0 despite the Samsung 980 PRO PCIe 4.0 NVME M.2 drive not running at full speed when the motherboard is set to PCIe 3.0.

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Greg Roup

Exactly what was expected

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 1, 2022

Size: 25CMVerified Purchase

The ribbon is not quite as flexible as the picture would suggest. It takes a little working with to properly form. Good product overall.

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Eric Powers

Heavy duty quality construction

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 5, 2022

Size: 30CMVerified Purchase

Unlike flimsy riser cables that come apart easily from the gold finger plugs or where the ribbon cables tear, this cable is built well and the cables are protected by a generous thick coating of rubberized flexible plastic.

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Kimberly Hawkins

Great Product

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 7, 2021

Size: 25CMVerified Purchase

Honestly I wasn’t expecting much of this cable, but it actually worked! It works just as well as having it plugged into the motherboard as where the past few riser cables I’ve ordered haven’t worked at all. I would definitely recommend it!

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S.L. Pierce

Fried my gpus.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 28, 2022

Size: 25CMVerified Purchase

Do not buy I never write reviews but this not only fried one of my cards, but to check to make sure it wasn't just the card, tested another with it and it fried it as well. There goes $1000.

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