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Quote from: drknark on June 27, 2011, 04:19:48 PM

So I'm all set up and ready to go. I flip the PSU into on, and hit the power button. First I noticed some really thin smoke, it was barely visible. Then the smell of burning plastic and suddenly a lot more smoke. This is what I pulled out:

I would do one of two things:
1. Find out which pins are used to transfer the power to the card and solder thicker wires to them.
2. Solder in a molex power connector on the "card" end of the extender, disconnect the power wires coming from the motherboard.

The second option can also be used to connect a lot of cards to a motherboard without frying the motherboard.

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Quote from: erek on July 03, 2011, 05:21:43 PM

what is the point of these riser cables? like why do you guys want to use them??

Not the pictured cable, but another reason for riser cables is to run a GPU off a 1x slot. Even low end motherboards have at least 1 or 2 1x PCIe slots in addition to one or two 16x slots.... using all the available slots means more bang for your $.

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Quote from: hennessy on July 05, 2011, 03:13:22 AM

Are those some old recycled IDE cables???

Not if you count the pins Wink

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Are those some old recycled IDE cables???

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Quote from: Jack of Diamonds on July 03, 2011, 08:36:07 PM

No comment on whether it's safe to draw 8x75 (600W) from the board 24/7.

It's not. You'll fry all sorts of good stuff.

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Quote from: malevolent on July 03, 2011, 09:38:38 AM

What GPU(s) and PSU(s) were you using?

The test was done (one cable at a time) with a Corsair HX750 and a 5750. Using other cards where the cables were supposed to go finally of course.

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Quote from: erek on July 03, 2011, 05:21:43 PM

what is the point of these riser cables? like why do you guys want to use them??

Motherboards usually have horribly placed PCI-e slots. Maybe to discourage the use of tons of GPU's.

With risers, you can actually utilize all 8 PCI-e slots on a board like MSI BB Marshall.
Which would be impossible normally, because a single card (even a 5770) takes 2 slots on the board.

No comment on whether it's safe to draw 8x75 (600W) from the board 24/7.

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Better airflow.
Without them, in many motherboards no more than 2-3 cards would fit.

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what is the point of these riser cables? like why do you guys want to use them??

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What GPU(s) and PSU(s) were you using?

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Quote from: teflone on June 29, 2011, 06:42:55 PM

I also think you messed this one up yourself, there are multiple loops in a slot.. looks like you shorted out your pwr supply +v

Messed it up how? I'm confused. The connectors on each side were already mounted when I got the cable. The pci-e connectors seemed to fit tightly in the slot / on the card, I don't see how I could have gotten that wrong.

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same thing happened to one of my cables.

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You're fat, because you dont have any pics on FB

Quote from: MaGNeT on June 29, 2011, 04:43:11 PM

When I look at the picture I think one of the connectors wasn't aligned correctly.
And when you look at the upper left connector it even looks like 2 pins are bended because there isn't a hole where they fit in.

I also think you messed this one up yourself, there are multiple loops in a slot.. looks like you shorted out your pwr supply +v

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When I look at the picture I think one of the connectors wasn't aligned correctly.
And when you look at the upper left connector it even looks like 2 pins are bent because there isn't a hole where they fit in.

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Another satisfied cablesaurus costumer here. And you can pay with bitcoins.

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i got 4 $5 16-16's recently and couldn't get my cards to show up.

Got 3 other x1-x16's today and cards showed up right away.
All cables I've gotten from cablesaurus have worked fine.

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Lucky escape. Could of killed hardware

For me if I ever need anything I will use cablesaurus Its worth the extra not to fry my hardware.

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Yikes!

I bought mine (just a single one) from that cryptoanarchy store, and it works great. Also bought some resistors from them... good experience all around though!

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Yeah, I tried one from cablesaurus after this incident. It works fine, so I have ordered a bunch of them now

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Buy from Cablesaurus, these work 100% fine even in 24/7 use, and I bought a version with a Molex power feeder injected in the ribbon = even less risk of something like that.

BTW, my 4th card wasn't detected either when using the riser from CS, until I plugged in the extra power cable.

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