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the latest craze in the PC world is that of a vertically mounted GPU it serves to show off that beautifully design graphics card cooler which is usually custom and in this case a lot of people want the custom coolers and if you had it horizontally the most the time you just get to see a logo on the side who wants that but with tempered glass and acrylic side panels now becoming more of a requirement rather than option and we're even seeing them being introduced into budget PC cases that cost next to nothing we're going to see what you really need to know however with these Rises and we're going to couple this with an RT x20 atti from gigabyte to really see if we can get any differences between a riser cable on and rise a cable off now I will start with a stern warning not all PCIe risers are created equally for example all three of the riser cables I've used before have not worked one has come close but started crashing and giving me weird errors and the other two well most recently I tried one of the two failed risers on the core p7 for the all AMD build video we cut here on tech yes City and well with the rise of the system just wouldn't post no matter what we tried take the riser away and sure enough it posted straight away with that being said I'm now using this Coolermaster vertical GPU mount kid behind me here because a friend in Brisbane got it on good old gam tree for $40.00 and allowed me to use it for this video and it actually works except for one thing I don't have a case here where I can mount it officially to as just yet so we decided to use this old NZXT s340 and well it can host the vertical mount fine with a little hacking now squeamish viewers may want to look away because the bracket does fit in any case with seven full height PCI slots and screws into the original hole though if it mounts up to any case what's the issue you might ask well because the GPU is now sitting this way it can interfere with the slats on the actual case itself so I had to give them a tiny snip to remove the bars that were otherwise blocking cables for example and for the Antec case I even had to zip tie it off usually the Coolermaster bars simply unscrew rotate to accommodate themselves in a Coolermaster case and if you're lucky you may only need to do minimal modification but chances are you're removing all the bars especially since we are testing this r-tx 20 atti with triple monitors from the budget Wow PC I'll put a link for that up here it was certainly an experience a few mentions however we must test performance of this riser to see if we're losing any bandwidth or FPS by extending the PCIe runs or if the cable itself is an earthing performance firstly one important warning however with most vertical GPUs mounted this way you will either lose access to using all but one PCIe slot unless your motherboard has some on the top or a full speed lower PCIe slot or for those cases that do have a dedicated vertical section you'll be pushing the graphics card uncomfortably close to the side panel possibly even starving it of air flow however onto that testing so for these tests I actually decided to test on two different systems we've got an AMD AM 3 plus system behind us here with an FX 8350 we've also overclocked that overclocked the memory and we've even done the tests with both non overclocked on the GPU and overclocked on the our TX 28 ETI done the exact same thing with the Intel rig which features a 7 8 20 X on X 2 9 9 and 16 gigabytes of ddr4 memory clocked to 3200 megahertz first off here we'll take a look at the AMD system and with riser vs. no riser in UniGene heaven we noticed virtually no difference and then moving on to x by extreme which is where we're particularly stressing the graphics card because it is a very intense 4k benchmark well yet again it got virtually no difference between the two which is all down to pretty much margin of error and we'll talk about that soon and then moving on to testing another benchmark UniGene value we yet again saw no difference in performance and we are testing again on 1440p x 3 monitors so that's a massive resolution here which will be stressing the gravis card quite a lot moving on to the Intel system however things were not different at all again so heaven didn't show much of the difference at all again within margin of error moving over to UniGene valley we saw virtually no difference yet again moving on the time spike streamed the 4k intense benchmark we saw yet again no difference all down to margin of error and so now we're moving on to verdict timer we virtually saw no changes to performance or within a tight margin of error which is completely normal what we actually did too was overclocked this 20/80 TI just to make sure it wasn't being limited not just by the riser but also by the CPU itself to ensure that we didn't have any cpu bottlenecks coming into play when we were trying to get these numbers for you guys but what about some other differences with having a riser versus not having a riser I mean in previous runs you could have had the GPU getting hot because it was mounted vertically in a case with no air flow and maybe there's the other way around where it could actually help air flow but one thing that's important to note however the performance numbers could be affected if we used an inferior PCIe riser cable as I said before and to start this video I tried out three different cables before this kit right here and I couldn't even get to the post screen so maybe there's some differences with cheaper cables that could actually work but may affect performance either way however in this case we use the Coolermaster vertical GPU kit when the side panel was off on both cases so in fact we probably even slightly improved air flow because the air doesn't have to wind up at such a turbulent angle I mean very sort of anal retentive stuff but to say it made a difference would honestly be placebo and not like that band back in the 90s they made some good tracks but not some good facts but more importantly I will admit one thing it did make the build look so much better especially with the cards that have a more aggressive front cooler like this gigabyte and the wind force 980 that we have not only does it look more aesthetically pleasing but it also serves to cover up the unused plugs and capacitors of the motherboard for example giving that clean look without even trying and if it's one thing you guys know when it comes to cable management sometimes I just like the clean look to stand out when you can sort of take the back panel off there may be some ugly cable management there but it's all in the name of saving time however now back to the serious face one thing that is important to stress is the quality and hence the price of the riser cable just like the age-old saying you get what you pay for it applies to PCIe Rises - no they will achieve riser FAC signal quality and possibly speed that also may not even let your computer turn on properly at all as we're going to see now for the third time this is the only GPU mount I've tried to this date that has allowed the computer to boot without some weird BIOS errors and trust me those errors were frustrating and it's just wasted me a lot of time in the past where people in the video when I did the AMD PC pointed out their frustrations with failed PCIe Rises as well but regardless this bill behind me is now so much more appealing whether you want to add that to a sale or keep it on a desk it will definitely make anyone's eyes shine but with that said I am going to be looking for a budget option that you can get off Aliexpress or ebay that actually works properly so if you guys know any suggestions be sure to drop them in the comment section below and also let us know in the comment section what do you think of vertically mounted GPUs have you tried it yet are you just gonna shy away from it you think it's one of those crazes that doesn't need to be touched just like RGB or are you a fan of RGB and you're gonna be moving into vertical GPU mounts love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and I'll catch you in the next Tech video very soon peace out for now bye you