LINKUP PCIE 3.0 16x Shielded Extreme High-Speed Riser Cable Premium PCI Express Port Extension Card┃Straight Socket (10 cm) - TT Compatible

This cable allowed me to use a desktop card with an old Shuttle Cube PC re-puprposed as an arcade machine. I got a GPU stand from Etsy, and mounted the GPU (a 1050ti...) on top of the Cube's exposed skeleton, with this cable running to the card. Maybe it's the Nividia card but it does seems to very briefly flash some sort of funny color-check pixels screen hust before the PC posts, which it didn't do before with the old 600 GT series card it came with. Displays the computer applications and arcade emulators and everything runs fine with this PCIe x16 extension cable.

Perfect for my computer build. I needed a 10mm riser and this fits the bill. Working very well.

I purchased this item because of how long the Asus Strix 1080 GTX was. Unfortunately I did not have enough room in my H500M case with this card and a EKWB Xres140 D5 water pump. I have tried the EZDIY Riser cable and had no luck, TWICE! Although they did have excellent customer support. Once I receive this riser cable I was expecting it to not work at all. The cable was bent in half, there was more than enough space to place the cable properly straight inside the packaging.The plastic packaging was already opened. I'm not sure if I received a cable that was returned before to Amazon. Once I installed the riser cable to my surprise it worked fine. My pc boot properly and was able to play games without any random crashes. Although hopefully the cable doesn't give me any problems anytime soon. Paying $40 for an already tampered cable and terrible packaging is not good at all. UPDATE: Thank you very much to LINKUP for their excellent customer service. They informed me that Amazon in some cases sends open items back to another customer buying the exact item. Theres no need to give this company anything less than 5 stars. Besides the new cable they shipped me in exchange for the open one worked perfectly fine.

I bought the 20cm Universal Right Angle Premium cable to use in a build that has a Ryzen R9 3900x on an Asus Crosshair Hero VIII (Wi-Fi) and a Radeon 5700 XT Anniversary Edition. I was disappointed to see that I was getting constant BSODs after booting with the riser cable recently installed. Couldn't even load the desktop in some cases. I set the primary PCI-E lane to use x16 Gen 3 (PCI-E 3.0) and sure enough it booted just fine after that. So even though the packaging material says it's "4.0 Ready" it is sadly not. My BIOS was set to use "AUTO" as the PCI-E Generation spec, so it was likely defaulting to 4.0 and crashing on boot. I decided to give the Extreme Gaming edition riser cable a try even though it only comes in 30CM at the minimum, but hopefully it will function at PCI-E 4.0 standards. I will update this review once I know if the "Extreme Gaming" version of these riser cables will work for PCI-E 4.0 UPDATE: I got the 30cm (Right Angle) Extreme Gaming version of the cable and while, yes, I am able to boot up with PCI-E 4.0 mode enabled (BIOS set to "AUTO") I got fairly frequent Blue Screens of Death with "Video TDR Failure (atikmpag.sys)" crashes. I decided to just run the PCI-E_x16_1 lane in my BIOS at 3.0 to prevent the crashes, but it just seems like these LINKUP available riser cables won't work for my motherboard + GPU combo. The cables work well, and seem to be well made, and I don't have issues running at PCI-E 3.0 but they are certainly not guaranteed to work with PCI-E 4.0 in any and all scenarios. **UPDATE** I was notified about an updated riser cable from LINKUP called the "Ultra PCIe 4.0" Riser Cable and quickly ordered a 20cm right angle version of the new cable directly from LINKUP to give it a try, and to my delight it's working great with PCIe 4.0 x16 so far! I ran several benchmarks (3DMark PCI Express Feature Test, Time Spy, Fire Strike, etc.) and tests and have gamed quite a bit with it installed and my PCIe lane set back to "auto" and haven't seen any issues or BSODs so far using this new Ultra PCIe 4.0 riser cable. I've confirmed with GPU-Z that the PCIe mode is entering 4.0 while gaming or a video rendering load is detected. LINKUP will launch their true PCIe 4.0 riser cables in March, 2020 on Amazon. The Ultra PCIe 4.0 riser cables can be purchased at the following links on Amazon - For the straight version: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y43C9XD , and for the right angle version: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y449XHG . I hope this helps anyone looking to get a true PCIe 4.0 riser cable in their new systems, good luck and game on!

The cables arrived fast and well packaged. They work like they should, and have given me no issues so far. Easy to route, even in my hybrid desk/case, and flexible without losing capability. Could do with a lower price, but quality comes with a cost.

The cable is very short at 10 cm, but it's highly ideal for ITX PCs where space is very limited. This cable was more than enough length I needed to install it to the motherboard, but it was a tight fit based on my case. Installation took me about 7 minutes, and it may be a little bit more if you're working with an ITX system depending on your case. You can bend the cables back and forth and they will not break. One of the cables is more flimsy than the other, but this is part of the design, not a sign of reduced quality. I also did some comparisons with the GPU performance directly to the motherboard and using the card. With PassTime9, connecting to the motherboard yields a score of 15411. Connecting with the adapter gives me a score of 15,319. The results are about a 0.6% drop for my configuration, but it's a very small performance drop if you need to use this cable. It's a rather expensive cable. There are less expensive cables that can perform the same function, but you do get what you pay for. If you buy a cheaper cable, you may see a higher performance drop compared to this. I thought this product could have been a little cheaper, but I am not disappointed with the results.

Apparently you don’t always get what you pay for and the Linkup PCIe 4.0 riser cable is a great example of that. I paid upwards of $70 for this thing and expected it would be good and essentially perform the one basic thing that it’s designed for without dropping frames. In my experience, a high price point usually indicates exceptional material and quality assurance. In this case, it absolutely did not. I read some of the bad reviews and should have listened, but I figured they were probably talking about the budget line of cables, not the premium one I was looking at. It’s hard to tell since they’re all grouped together on the same page. One more selling point was that my mobo has 2 PCIe 4.0 ports on it so I figured I’d go the future proof route and this item is sadly it right now if that’s what you’re trying to accomplish. Immediately after connecting this thing to my RDX 2080 ti and plugging it into my Prime X570 Pro motherboard, I experienced boot issues and the fan on my graphics card ran constantly at full speed, then BIOS would try to load, the error light on the mobo indicated an issue with the graphics card, boot would fail, then the system would reload and repeat the cycle until a reset screen appeared from too many failed attempts. After the reset screen, I could get to Windows without making any actual changes in BIOS. Windows took significantly longer to load than normal and crashed sporadically while running. Every time I would reboot, I would have to do the same thing. I tried removing and reinserting the riser firmly. It doesn’t really lock in place on the motherboard (which felt cheap) so I thought maybe it wasn’t seated correctly. I tried reseating it and using multiple ports - nothing helped. I have read some cables aren’t well shielded and thought maybe that was the source of the issue. To test this theory, I wrapped the entire cable in anti static shielding plastic four times over and from terminal to terminal - absolutely no change. The second I took the riser cable out of the situation, everything went back to working flawlessly. I seriously hope this thing didn’t damage any of the components of my rig. I thought I could trust it because I paid enough to expect a good quality cable. Save yourself a few hours of wasted time and potential damage to your rig and look elsewhere. At least to me, it’s not worth the risk and this thing is getting returned first thing in the morning. Lesson learned: never buy a Linkup brand cable again.

A riser cable can never increase your framerates. However, it can absolutely hinder them. That said, I saw zero framerate drop between cabled and my 2080 (non-ti version) plugged straight into the motherboard. I ran multiple benchmarks (3DMark, in-game, etc) with and without, and differences were within margin of error. I did notice about a 4-6C drop, under load, in temps on the card, and about 2C drop on the CPU, due simply to the fact that the card was off and away from the motherboard. These temps are with the case side-door open (more on that below). Cable seems very high quality, and was sufficiently long (actually just a bit TOO long) for a standard mid-tower case. Kind of wish there were color options other than just grey, as a vertically mounted GPU on a showcase PC is sexy, but kinda let down by the bland cable. I think CableMods exists because I'm not the only one who cares about aesthetics to the point of custom-coloring our ATX cables. Sadly, the ASUS ROG Strix 2080 I bought is a 2.75 slot card, and is just too thick to mount vertically in my Corsair 500D case. It gives me about a 1/4inch gap if I close the case door, and then the temps just skyrocket. I used it instead in my old case with my old 980ti, which seems to get enough airflow; dropping temps by a few degrees even with the door closed. Good product, despite me not checking if I could properly fit my GPU vertically. Hopefully one of you learns from my oversight.