I Bought a $6 PCIe x16 Riser Cable For GAMING.... Was it a MISTAKE?
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- I bought the cheapest PCIe Riser cable off amazon for $6... and it didn't even say what exact spec it was... It looked like it was x16, and upon booting it up it recognised it as PCIe 3.0. However what we drop it down to PCIe 2.0 x4? Will it stutter or drop performance in games like Fortnite and Apex Legends? Let's find out.
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I had one of those too and I got a couple crashes at first. I read about how much expensive riser cables focus their marketing on their good shielding.
So I wrapped the cheap riser in aluminium tape and it actually totally helped.
I am also planning to do the same. Use a copper wire to wrap around the aluminium and ground it to case.
I'm really loving these series of videos from Japan, Bryan. You look much happier and relaxed. I had a question about the CR 5 56 you are using now. Is there anything special you look for when selecting these water dispersants? For example I've been told WD 40 can create a sort of residue over time. Have you seen something similar over long periods. Also, are you using break cleaner for the initial clean because you don't have the ultrasonic cleaner with you.
WD40 seems is a little too thick, I have just tried a heap of them and kept going with the best over time. At the moment I don't need to use the ultrasonic, I will see what I can do when something comes along that is that dirty.
I was working for computer repair shop, and we had a lot of miners com with this type of riser cables back when people were minning with r9 280s and r9 290s . The cables worked just fine, only problems with them were quality control, bad soder joints etc. But you can check for that before using it. I remember that some of the r9 290x's used more than 75W from the PCI slot, and the cables handled it just fine.
The riser gives me flash backs for when we had IDE cables in our PC's. Never again.
That was also my first thought!
the higher end risers are the exact same thing with a little bit of extra shielding but they're just black
Was watching your restoration of the flooded pc when I clicked the notification. Awesome restoration!
That riser grey cable reminds me of the old IDE cables used in PC builds of the late 90s
Sprayed a riser like this black and probably spent more in time and paint over just buying a black one. Worked fine at 16x in a z97 board and looked good.
I have used these cheap PCIe extensions for years and never had a single issue, but I only ever used them in lower end GPU small form factor builds.
Loving your videos.
great info Bryan very good as usual
6:19 that wobble tho!
i have one of those but never really got the chance to use them. glad to know it works great
6:47 Every Tech YES City video helps and serves me well.
Perfekt, with that cable you can install a fullsizecard outside a small form factor computer and just connect an extra PSU, anway it would be fun if you tested a BEAST riser in a laptop and connect both with USB and min pci-e. Thanx and greetings from Sweden.
I got a similar cable several years ago from Newegg. However, mine also has a four-pin Molex connector for extra voltage . I was going to uae it in a Lenovo computer that you could only install a single slot video card in . Was going to side mount the video card, but I ended up putting a pci video card in instead...
Most trippy thing about this channel is watching it tired and seeing the prices. I'm from the UK and when i see Australian dollars or the Yen i flip out thinking whow that's expensive. Reality is often different ofc, its normally costing more here due to taxes and stuff (although lately it seems we are roughly in the same ball park)
Thumbnail cover image is awesome 🤣
Ive used these cables before from amazon in some custom made itx cases. They performed fine but they dont handle repetitive bending. Idk if the wires inside are fragile or the solder joint but I had a couple break during my prototyping phase because i had to take the pc apart several times and the cable broke.
Cool! Reminds me of IDE cables! Keep up the good work! Looking forward to more Tech Yes Cleaning but Japan has some clean used parts
Have a similar cheap PCIE riser cable but in black that I've been using since the last 4 years, just once I was getting video related GPU issues and thought that the riser had got spoilt due to bending and stopped using it, but it turned out that the connector had got residue on it (i live in hot humid rainforest) so cleaning the connector solved it and never had issues since, just be sure to attach it well even slight disconnection will give you video errors
I've seen posts few years back that riser needs to be putted lower port for compability issues , that it uses lower X8, x4. Maybe those cables have improved really good
With the cheapness of those you could just use some spray paint and have it look better. A can of spray paint will last quite a while painting those. Just would want to do it in larger batches if you were going to use them a lot in flips.
new studio? did you finally finish the house build?
brian do you have experience with e3 v5 xeon's on consumer motherboards (z170,b150,h110) because as far as i know you cant put it in directly, there are some people that did bios mods to make it work but the information is so convoluted
Had couple of those messing signal on pcie 3. They had poor soldering and some of signal lines were shorting or not connected at all.
If mobo and gpu handshake on pcie 4.0 those cables keep messing up signal and you can't even go to bios to change without plugging gpu on mobo. I had premium pcie 3 cable and it kept preventing boot every time after updating bios. Kinda nasty when making hard tube watercooling. Even on pcie 3.0 with 5950X it had stuttering in game and required me to raise io voltage on cpu a little.
Buying that 90$ pcie 4.0 cable made life easy and Louge one might do pcie 5.0 too. So high quality on that one.
How do you support the GPU in the case other than by the PCIE bracket though? .... Coz most cases with vertical mount kits have the Riser fixing to the case at the bottom to support the weight.... I wouldn't like to mount say a big triple fan GPU that way without supporting it at the bottom.
I've got cable/extender exactly like this.
Works fine.
That riser cable reminds me of the old IDE cable 😆
Good to know these tacky ones just perform as good 👍 I do like black colored ones vs the 90s yucky colors lol it just looks slick and not outa place.
In my experience with a Gigabyte 2060 Super Windforce OC (2 slot thick, 3 fans):
+ Looks better vs original orientation.
+ Doesn't heat up M.2 drive on second slot of mobo
- GPU core runs a bit hotter (3-5°C in my case)
- Thermal pad oil leakage may occur after some time.
So after 2 years of having my card vertically, it starts to leak oil. I took the card apart to check and the oil came from the thermal pads. They are still in good condition and moist, not dried so still usable. But because I don't want a mess in my PC, I put the card back in horizontal position and no more leak. So imo if your card has cheap pads, keep it in horizontal position for cooler temp and no worries of leakage.
even in normal orientation they also will leak oil my aorus rx 580 did that
I didn't know this was a possibility, irregardless of the orientation. Thanks for the tip so I'll be aware in case I see a weird scenario like that.
Would using a riser in a dual chamber case be worth it for better cooling performance? This is for an axialy cooled 1080 ti. My old case was small and it throttled hard. Planning on doing it cuz a friend gave me his modded case.
Been using these for sometime now, I like to connect my gpus outside my cases for fresh air purposes. Cut a slit in the case and feed it through. They do say on them bitcoin and another called Litcoin or something.
Dollar Tree has “ specialty duck tape “ of all colors. You could wrap it with that or some cheap carbon fiber vinyl for just a few bucks and have a decent looking riser cable. I did that for 1 build and the vinyl turned out great.
are you going to try out and use SteamOS 3.0 when it officially releases in the future?
Hey Bryan I have a Sabertooth x79 motherboard in working condition and want to refurbish and was wondering what Xeon cpu would I replace the i7 with to get better performance . I will buy a good used GPU so as to make it a good back up system and also what is good ram to fit as well. I currently have 2 *gig and 2 * 4 gig sticks in it but it still has another 4 ram slots free.I think they were 1600 ddr3 sticks
6:20 that wobble tho ;P
I LOVE THE LOOK OF THAT 970.
from my understanding on the bandwidth stuff, the riser will be good up to 6500XT or RTX3050, anything further will experience some bottleneck. It's still good for current generation budget range cards, or else you might want to up a bit for PCIE 3.0 X8/X16 ones, and do take note only use cards that's powered by PSU and not from the PCIE slot itself, don't put high hope on the cable quality.
these extender cables are for mining
Though would be interesting to see what gaming results you get if using two of these extender cables doubled up for extra length..
I have one of those cheap cables. It used to run an older HD 7870 and it worked flawlessly. Mind you I wouldn't use it for a modern powerful gpu.
A reliable riser cable conclusion with a sample size of 1?
These are good for cramped office PC's where your only other option is a low profile card.
using a 1m long amazon cable on a 12th gen i7 and 3070, no difference at all. but paid 70$usd. Even linus started to see issue with 3 meters
Those riser cables are meant for server-grade hardware. I have used them on a 360p G8 and a R720 with bifurcation enabled and the bandwidth spec is never an issue specially with optic fiber Pci-e cards
Spray painting those? Plasti dip?
0:48 I feel it would look better in black, EZ DIY FAB sells one for about $19 that is all black and would look better, but maybe later on you'll hit it with some spray paint, I am just getting started watching...
Question, I have an alienware laptop from 2015 And i notced last week that both the CPU fan and GPU fan randomly stopped working. On startup they spin just fine and on shutdown they spin up just fine. Also HWinfo is the ONLY program that will actually read the fans and allow me to manually control them just fine aswell. Without HWinfo though they dont spin AT all in windows, laptop will heat up to 70c at idle and i gotta shut down. I have4 tried everything, i took laptop apart cleaned the fans double checked the connection and Reinstalled windows, all the firmware drivers ect. STill no fans in windows unless i use HWinfo to manually control them. It an Alienware 15 P42F i7 4710HQ with a gtx 980m.
I've had 4 Risers so far, one that came with the case (PCIe 3x16 of course, didn't work with RTX 3070) and 3 PCIe 4x16 risers, none of which would worked and wouldn't recognise that the graphics card was installed. Tried 2 graphics cards, a supreme RTX 3070 TI and a EVAGA RTX 3070 FTW3 (which out ran the TI by 7% in benchmarks, both overclocked) got same result with all the version 4 riser cables. Can anyone suggest a good riser v4 cable?
I always thought video card should be mount like a radiator.
Black electrical tape is your friend here Brian :)
Can you safely spray paint that cable black?
I just built a pc in to a table and used the cheap riser cable, pc is so glitchy, crashing, resetting. Will be buying an expensive one. Btw unplugged the riser and put monitor to the motherboard and all symptoms went away.
That's a pretty cool looking GPU
I've been running a vert-mount on my 2070S for several years now and I can tell you that a riser-cable is NOT the place to cheap-out, I had crashes and shut-downs on cheaper cables with performance drops too. Several AMD cards I tried with a cheaper cable would have a fit and not run games at all. After experimenting a while I broke-down and bought a known-brand riser cable and have not had a single issue in any of the 3 gaming rigs my 2 daughters and I have running.
Do you think it might be due to pcie configuration? Maybe older cards works better with these cheaper cables because of the lack fof pcie 4.0..
@@Leo-cv5mh no.
What brand did you decide to go for? And did you notice any performance difference?
Some paint and it's a great bargain 👌
Have you considered doing a new system latency test on the 12th gen cpus, maybe VS zen 3 (3d vcache)? I think a lot of people would like to see fortnite, rainbow six siege, bloodhunt, rocket league, apex legends (all 1080p low) in the tests. I think it's good content if you're willing to do it.
I will see if I can get my hands on a 3d.
@@techyescity Dope, I personally can only find that at microcenters. System latency is actually something I study heavily hence the request. Even though the results may be on the scale of sub 0.5ms but that scales during gameplay (throughout time).
I have the exact same riser that i paid 14MYR (4.5 AUD) for it, i dont use it for graphics card but instead i use it for Wifi card.
Bit of black tape and spray paint and that riser will look the part!
i would N-E-V-E-R trust any of those cables where 75W goes through an uncertified cable.
those that have a 6pin are fine however.
Him saying that the card standing up is horizontal, proves that Australia really is tilted 90 degrees.
Welcome To Dulock !
Yep, today i connect 4K ASUS monitor to my 6500XT ,try runn Fortnite - o mann it switched resolution by loadin, then in loby to other ,mouse cant klick on settings..,Changet cable to DP ,after angry time it works until BUS , plap !!! 1080p frame small part on monitor game runnin - HOROR !!!! Hitin PC off, went angry awey. NEWER seen sutch on NV cards. (over 25 years gaming on PCs). This RX 6500XT ,even wont let instal AMD display drivers on my X99 PC !!!
hey what would you choose? R9 3900X or 5800x i can get one for 250us (both same price)
get the 3900x same cores and basically same performance
@@lachysimmonds357 i got it , i just wanned to ask what people think about it
I have the same shit from Aliexpress. But remember gtx 970 have 3.5 gb
It has to be budget friendly!
not a fan of case vertical mounts as they all are way too close to the side window, aftermarket mounts are better
..and if it's a Wi-FI or sound-card...
@@dallesamllhals9161 who would vertical mount a wifi or sound card, that's just plain silly
Black spray paint the cable and you are good to go.
I hope you are able to get an extension on your visit visa. We can see it is doing good for you mental health and family quality time. And the Japanese used market needed a Tech Yes Challenge to know who's boss anyway.
more like a Tech Hai Challenge
Can I ask? I thought that you lived in Australia and was wondering why you were in Japan?
He's got a kid there...
@@dallesamllhals9161 Ok. Thanks! Does he just stay there to visit his kid and comes home to Australia when not needed hehehe?
Can of black spray paint or black permanent marker and a bit of time will fix up those aesthetics!
I have the exact Riser cable and it only cost me $4 dollars.
Boom
QUACK
Spraypaint it black :P Budget premium!
i wonder how riser cables are going to perform with pcie5.0 around the horizon. the signal integrity really has to be perfect for it to work as its intended. ive already read articles that motherboard manufactures are having to get creative to make signal integrity perfect even with such short traces.
Im curious if you know japanese words and langauge
Just paint the cable black
Sub 200 views.... Havnt been this early in a minute. Tech Yes Time.
They do NOT work with a RTX 4070 ti lol
Why
@@Mark300win I wish I knew . Had to get a gen 4 one even tho it was a gen 3 CPU. The gen 4 one did work.
37th
1st again
I have EMF brain damage. What protein powder will fix this? please forward this question to brian, Regards, Tony Jas.
Just swinging by to say you look like house m.d in your thumbnail it made me stop watch and subscribe
it's like why are you so cheap? you gotta have some jeuish heritage in your blood there's no way you don't. you guys just cant help it
Really surprising - I have nothing to base that on but my but. I would have though just looking at it sideways would impact the performance. Very COoL. Also, we all have to finally all agree that Amazon's "bait & switch" is near finished. Where they BAIL and leave it in the hands of a million nobody sellers. Instead of dealing with one large company, we are back to China express. aka eBay. It is a shadow of its former self. Very disappointing. But that's life. Thank you for the video with such high value post-editing.