LINKUP PCIE 5.0 Riser Cable | for Vertical GPU Mount | Right Angle | Graphics Card GPU Ready | Usable with PCIe 4.0 & RX9070/ RTX5090 | 20cm (Total Length: 24cm)

It seems a lot of people buy these expecting a miracle. There are lots of things to consider.PCIe, especially Gen5, is particularly finicky about signal integrity. While longer options are offered, what cable length you can get away with will vary wildly by a few factors.1) Your motherboard / chipset quality, manufacturer, and CPU brand.2) The slot you pick (huge), as closer to the CPU has shorter traces, and the bottom slot is often controlled by the chipset, which is less reliable.3) PCI generation. If you're buying this, I assume you want 5, which is harder to stabilize than 4, which is harder than 3.Generally, you might be able to get away with 20-25 cm on the top PCIe slot. On the bottom, you might be lucky to get 10 cm to work. Video is more robust, among other reasons because it has error detection and retry to smooth over signal integrity issues. On the other hand, audio out from the GPU is notoriously flaky. While you may get video working, audio may be borderline or outright broken.Audio is a real-time, isochronous stream. Packets have to arrive on time and do not have recovery mechanisms. Your GPU will receive the information and process it itself, not on a different chip on the board. The GPU brand and generation could easily influence how reliable this is.The audio may be more or less reliable depending on the source. Browser audio, such as Bandcamp, will constantly re-negotiate and sync with a smaller stream buffer. This can cause serious audio cutouts if the PCIe connectivity isn't ideal. Something like a locally installed app, such as MusicBee, will be more reliable, but not necessarily perfect.What can you do to prevent problems?1) Use the minimum generation PCIe setting you can without running out of bandwidth overhead. Not every use case will require the bandwidth to saturate gen 4, making gen 5 have no benefit while being harder to drive.2) Use the PCIe slot closest to the GPU, where able. Sometimes you can't because of the lane configurations. Use GPU-Z to check if you're seeing the right lane distribution among your devices. Read your motherboard manual and ask an AI how much bandwidth you need for your monitor's resolution and refresh rate.3) Measure twice, consider required bends, and buy the shortest possible cable. Even small differences in length mean huge attenuation benefits.4) Consider if you need HDMI / DP audio out. If so, you need to be stricter.5) During install, prevent any strain on the cable. Keep them as straight as possible. Gentle bends and nothing sharp to damage them. Straighter cables are more reliable.As far as operating system / driver / BIOS changes:1) Disable PCIe link power state management.2) Disable PCIe power saving features in BIOS.3) If using the chipset lanes, make sure to check for any chipset settings in BIOS that may impact it, particularly power-related.4) Use the lowest audio format you need for your equipment and source files. No 24-bit, 192k if you only need 16-bit, 48k.5) Consider turning off AMD ULPS in the registry for the GPU, if using AMD.6) Also on AMD, turning on audio noise suppression can mitigate flaky audio. This forces a continuous, buffered stream and can prevent the GPU audio processing from idling between packets, smoothing over minor drops.

One of, if not the only reliable company for PCIe riser cards. Used for my Phanteks Evolv Shift 2 case for a MSI RTX VENTUS 3x to achieve PCIe 5.0. Only company that I found that offers left angle riser cards + the reverse option which was perfect and highly needed for this build. Plus they have options for different lengths too. Space is so limited in this case. Strong riser base, extremely flexible yet durable cabling. The plastic GPU lock did slightly crack when putting my GPU in..though I may have used too much force haha. Hoping reliability pans out in the long run but this is riser cable is amazing so far. Achieves PCIe 5.0 x 16 when set in BIOS, verified w/ GPU-Z

I have been vertically mounting GPU's for awhile, I upgraded to a 3090 RTX card when available and had to switch back to horizontal mounting. Why? Because the vertical mounting kit I was previously using had a riser cable that simply did not work with Nvidia 3000 series GPU's.Ordered this cable and it works now, back to vertical mounting! I ordered the 20cm, my case is a Lian Li 011 XL. To be honest it is a tiny bit long, I think I could have gotten by with the 15cm cable, but it would have been a close fit.With newer cards like the 3080 etc I would even suggest vertical mounting is functionally a better choice too in a large case. I saw the temps on my RAM and various other system points go down anywhere from 2-5 celcius after switching back to vertical. This is because the horizontal mount blocked the intake from the fans at the bottom of my case, and placed the GPU much much closer to the other components on the mobo. Meanwhile the GPU itself under full load basically hit the same max temp regardless of mounting orientation.UPDATED NOTES: I am seeing the same questions asked constantly and relentlessly, which cable should I buy, what length, etc etc etc. The answers are almost always the same, so read on if you want to know which one you should buy or if you even should buy one.1: Right angle or Straight?Answer - Is your case an ITX case? If not, the answer is Right Angle, the end. Doesn't matter if it is full tower, mid tower, or what vertical mounting adapter you are using. Unless your case is an ITX case you want the Right Angle version. If you ARE using an ITX or Mini ITX case you want the Straight angle.2: Will it work with my motherboard XYZ into infinity? Answer - Is the primary PCI Express slot of your motherboard PCI-E 3.0 or higher compliant? If the answer is yes, then yes, this cable will work with your motherboard.3: Which length should I buy?Answer 1 - If your case is a ATX Mid Tower or Full Tower case you are almost guaranteed to be fine with the 20cm length. If anything it will probably be slightly long. You may even be okay with the 15 cm length, for example with the Phanteks P500A case (which I have used in computer builds) the 15cm version will be long enough though it will be a little snug. Any less than 15 I probably wouldn't risk it unless you are vertically mounting the GPU in the highest possible position. For reference both of the riser cables included with the old Phanteks vertical mount kit and the new EKWB kits are around 18cm.Answer 2 - But what if I have an ITX case? Then you probably already had a riser cable included with the case. You need to remove that riser cable, measure it, and order accordingly. I am sorry but doing anything else is just rolling the dice unless you have specific manufacturer documentation stating the required length.4: The question you should ask but probably don't... Do I even need this cable?Answer - That depends. Do you need to replace your existing riser cable for some reason? Maybe it went bad or there was a recall on it? If so than this cable is a good choice. Alternatively, are you in my situation where you upgraded to a newer card like a RXT 3080 or Ryzen 6800XT and your new GPU wouldn't work with your old riser cable? Then yes, this cable is a great buy.However if you are buying this cable for no reason other than "PCI-E 4.0!!!!!!" You absolutely do not need, and should not buy this cable. You are extremely unlikely to get true PCI-E 4.0 speed over a riser cable, even this one. Also extensive tests have been done by many trusted tech groups and reviewers that have proven forced PCI-E 4.0 has extremely minimal performance gain over 3.0. Most often less than 5% gain, sometimes as little as 1%. A theoretical maybe gain of a couple percent (which translates generally to only 1-3 frames) is not worth 70 dollars.The thing that makes this cable good is that it has been factory tested with all modern graphics cards and is guaranteed to work with them. No other riser cable on the market that I know of, and certainly no included riser cable that comes with a kit, can claim the same. The PCI-E 4.0 compatibility is a cool marketing spiel, but it is not a reason to buy this riser cable. 4.0 compliance does not mean 4.0 speeds.

Just in case anyone needs to know this. The Single Reverse Left Angle 24cm version of this riser cable does not fit the Terra case even if at the time of my writing this it is advertised as being able to work with that case in the title and description.The part of the Terra case they refer to as the spine which holds the motherboard and GPU bracket has a slot for cables to go through and this cable is either too wide or not flexible enough to accommodate that without cutting the metal on the case. The length is not the issue, it is the width mostly, the metal on the case would dig into and damage the cable on the side closest to the back of the case if placed in the only place the case had for riser cables to run. Also the holes for the screws do not line up either.The only way to get this to run the same way as the original cable is to cut the metal on the case for the cable itself and drill new holes for screws on the GPU bracket.