Micro SATA Cables PCI-E Express 1X Riser Card with Flexible Cable

It's cheap and it works. My graphics card was blocking the PCI-E 1x slots on my motherboard, so I got this riser to fit under the GPU, and now I got my 1x slot back. I used this to install a usb 3.0 card, and so far, everything is working great. This thing ships from china, so it'll be 3-4 weeks before you get it. If you can wait, there are a couple other ones on Amazon that look practically identical, ship a little faster, but are also a little more expensive. But for under 10 bucks, this thing will do the trick. Keep in mind, that if you have a full size motherboard, you might run into some trouble mounting any cards with ports on the back panel of your tower/case you might install via this riser, since the board itself might get in the way. I have a micro-atx board in a full-atx case, so I had some room, and this wasn't an issue for me. Either way, if you're considering using the riser, you're gonna end up with a hack job.

I build a lot of industrial small-form-factor and 1U rackmount PCs to run my products. These risers have been working out OK in the field so far, but the way the ribbon cable is terminated to the PCIe connector, especially at the card end, seems mechanically cheesey. Also note that it is straight on, and not a 90 degree connector, which means that you can use this for a card that is mounted horizontally, but you won't be able to use it in a chassis where the card is vertical; the connector is too tall to fit between the card and the bottom of the case. Also note that this is the longest flexible riser that I've seen, but it is also pretty much the only unshielded PCIe riser that I've seen... not the greatest combination, at least in theory. Again, I haven't seen any problems yet, but these potential issues bother me enough that I don't want to risk my customers' wrath for a relatively small savings; I've switched back to buying the $35 'officially approved' shielded right-angle riser that my PC vendor sells. So I'd say that if the use is noncritical (ie, at home or in the office, not a lot of vibration, or worries about shpping the finished PC) the low price makes this product worth trying... but I wouldn't bet my life, reputation, (or factory) on it.

The quality of this product is quite poor. Initially I was peeved by the fat that there are actually two sets of cables between each end, which I thought was odd. Because of this it is not as flexible as some would prefer, and doesn't easily stay bent the bay you want it. I could have handled these two things if it weren't for the fact that the connectors (where the gold-fingers become wires), particularly on the male end, are quite weak, and at least 5 separate connectors broke on mine during installation.

This cable works great for its intended purpose. I ordered it to help out a friend install a PCI-E USB3 card. The problem was his PCI-E 1X port was blocked by his GPU. This cable is not thin enough to bypass that. (Wish it was) we ended up using this cable in combination with modding the GPU to make it all fit. Overall a great product but i took off one star due to the fact that its not as thin as i would have hoped.

I use two cables to install two PCI-E cards. The video card in my PC has a HUGE heat sink that blocks both of the PCI-E 1x ports. That was OK for many years. Recently I decided to add a TV tuner card and a USB 3.0 card to my PC, and I needed those PCI-E 1x ports back. The use of 2 of these cables fixes the problem. Just like many people have said before in their reviews about this product, I need to re-mount the PCI-E card upside down in the mounting back plate in order to get enough clearance to make the connection. Previously, I had tried to mount the card upward by 1" or so and hoped that I could create enough clearance in the bottom to make the connection from the bottom. Unfortunately, that didn't give me enough clearance. Reading reviews provided me the idea of turning the card upside down, and that fixes the problem. Thanks guys! By the way, this is not difficult to mount the card upside down in the mounting plate. All you need is a solid piece of new plain mounting plate (mounting bracket), a Dremel tool with a cutting wheel to cut openings on the new metal mounting plate and to cut out the existing mounting plate to only the area that is connected to the circuit board, and a small drill press to drill holes for nut-and-bolt the existing mounting plate and the new mounting plate together. Of course, you also need 2 sets of nuts and bolts.

The connections are flimsy to the point where I literally needed to balance my wireless card precariously in order to make it stay in. Other than that, the product works fine, and it came with any and all spare parts I could want/ need.

These cables are fine for basic debugging and testing of PCIe devices, but I would not recommend using them as a permanent solution to card-offsetting. After connecting a Sound Blaster Z card through them, I encountered intermittent audio drop-outs, which would cause explorer to crash. After much hair-pulling, I isolated the issue to the shoddy connection between the cable and slot insert. The blue plastic shield hides a slapdash soldering job which, if jostled even slightly, causes momentary connection loss. Sometimes this would happen even just from the natural settling / movement of air within the case. After replacing it with the 3M shielded PCI-e ribbon, everything's groovy. But the professional quality ribbon is an order of magnitude more expensive, so if you're just looking for a short-term solution to test and debug, this cable could work for you.

The cables are fairly sturdy, I used one because my video card shroud takes up a PCIe x1 slot. It was a VERY tight fit to get this thing under the shroud. I almost thought I was going to break my card at one point, so be EXTREMELY careful. I used this to wire up my PCIe x1 Wireless card. It works. If you can find a 90 degree angle adapter, that would work really nice with this.