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For all of you looking to buy a PCI extension cable this is my experience:



The second one is built from several pieces which you then plug one into another and the connections are at 90 degrees. Any how this one gave me a lot of troubles, windows would often report a problem with GPU connected using this cable so Octane wouldn't use this card so my advice is not to buy cables with such design. I got somewhat better results by raising GPU voltage but sooner or later it would fail again.

The first one is straight and in one piece. Since I replaced the bad cable with this one I didn't have any problems.

Thanks for info, BorisGoreta.
Might come handy ne day! =)

you are right Boris

my pcie that wont work from beggining is that bad pcie

Yes, and the bad one costs 3 times more than the good one.

"Good-Bad" I don't know if it's the good term... Because I bought "bad" (look like) and "good"... and the "good" doesn't work. I have to test the "bad" which is 3 times more expensive indeed, but the design looks 3 times more serious too

I am not sure about the design being better because it has interconnectors. The black plastic parts are actually clamps which you use to clamp over the wires and then this plastic part is connected to male series of pins on the board strip. You have 4 such connectors 2 on each side. Male pins are also welded to the board strips routed through the board to the other series of male or female connectors which are also welded to the board. There is just so much going on here for what it needs to do. And the connectors are at 90 degrees which is not convenient.

The "good" one is just one continuous "flow" of wires without any interconnections.