New way to bench

I went to the XS party in Vega,s when I saw on the Fugger's table a PCIex 16, and went after one.
It's great because you do not need to be concerned about VGA condensation on the motherboard and makes the benchmark more fun.
I took today that I had sold my 990x and bought a 980X, to use about 15 liters of nitrogen that was left, I opted for XP and 3DMark06, so I could test the CPU and video card with the Extender at the same time.

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The result was fine for only one benchmark


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Waiting for a new charge of LN2 to test another benchs.

Best regards for all :up:

it is cool , thx for sharing !!!

Seems that u got few PCIE signal loss from the extender !!

How much is it there ?

yea that is what i am wondering the PCI-E signal loss. But then you think about very long boards like the UD9 and the ROG Xpander that increase the distance up to almost a foot, so a 9 inch extender might work ok in the first or third slot....

Either way that is a new way to bench, i am going to try to find myself two.

All i could find is this and its not long enough or shielded like that one. http://www.camera2000.com/en/pci-exp...ble-1u-2u.html

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Originally Posted by sin0822

yea that is what i am wondering the PCI-E signal loss. But then you think about very long boards like the UD9 and the ROG Xpander that increase the distance up to almost a foot, so a 9 inch extender might work ok in the first or third slot....

Either way that is a new way to bench, i am going to try to find myself two.

All i could find is this and its not long enough or shielded like that one. http://www.camera2000.com/en/pci-exp...ble-1u-2u.html

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i think that u should try another kind of extender .

i have tried this one ... but i had lots problems with it .

:( i bet, any luck on finding what is in the picture?

Coool :up:
Better on temp. control this way ?
You're creative, Bro !

Problems might be power related, could try adding supplemental power connectors to the back of the extender cable where it plugs into the GPU.

Nice one ronaldo.

If you're drunk and look quickly, it kinda looks like an SR-2 :D

Very nice idea mate! :up:


We tested such a extender some month ago an run into problems.
It seems we have to test another and better shielded one....

Nice result!

Loool this is crazy...:p
No cold bug on 580?

whau, awesome!

Always creative Ronaldo :yepp:

Waiting for the next shoot :up:

Very creative, indeed.
Nice clocks, too! :up:

Very nice idea rbuass, contratulations by the result and ideia!

Thanks for all
I don t know if i can get best result without the extender...i need to test to know if i losed a lit bit of signal...
But i am sure hight quality to a extender is needed....
Is possible i can reach best result using "normal" way to bench.

Nice ide for sure but it isn't worth doing like this when you have a lot of troubles or at least signal loss.
Love the CPU POT on VGA but until someone make safe/full-signal extender, we'll stick to the classic (vga pot) benching :p:

Great idea, one more time!

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Originally Posted by nickshih

i think that u should try another kind of extender .

i have tried this one ... but i had lots problems with it .

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check out fleabay.there are several offerings.;)

I am impressed to see it working! I thought these extenders aren't meant for GPUs nor any other PCIe 2.0 device.

I wanted to try such an experiment two years ago but on the internet I saw several people saying their graphics card was not working properly with it, so never actually tried it.

Kudos to you!

Cool idea, I want to try it now!

Awesome work Ronaldo, the score is great too. :clap:

Thanks friends...
Hi Gautam...a positive view coming from a great overclocker like you, is very gratifying to me.

Congrats, great work! Seems it is working without losing efficiency :up:

Outstanding and creative work my friend :clap:

Interesting idea....Great work..

that idea isn't new but I acutally never saw it working - most people I talked to that tried it had a lot issues with the cards not running, when they ran they couldn't oc that well and all so on.
Very nice to see it working and hopefully there will be working bridges for sale in europe as well. I know some guys that have tested like 2 or 3 different types. all with their issues and none worked well so far - could you find out any part number or so?

keep the results coming, great work!

That is quite interesting.

Good job on making it work, when it seems like no one else has been able to.

Great score too.

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Originally Posted by sin0822

yea that is what i am wondering the PCI-E signal loss. But then you think about very long boards like the UD9 and the ROG Xpander that increase the distance up to almost a foot, so a 9 inch extender might work ok in the first or third slot....

Either way that is a new way to bench, i am going to try to find myself two.

All i could find is this and its not long enough or shielded like that one. http://www.camera2000.com/en/pci-exp...ble-1u-2u.html

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No friend...
This PCI ex is like garbage...cheap and not good enough...
You have to look for a very good well done Extender...cause this cheap products will disappoint you for sure...
Need to be made from the high quality components...and loof for > 8"
Mine is Adexelec and works fine here...
Adexelec don t sell directly...you have to ask to make one custom for you...
Its Expensive (here about £200 cause there are lots of fees and DHL shipping is expensive).
One more thing...
I don t know my result at same system benching directly on the motherboard (normal way)...
Is possible to get beter results (or no....i don t know)...
But...i think is a funny way to bench :up:

Yea that was the only type i could find, it looked too crappy to buy, , i might look into making one then or asking them to make me one.

Thanks!

That's an awesome idea :D

Cool
I like this one
Great work
Interesting:D

so cooll mate.....like this!!:up:

I have a friend that bought a cheap one and it did not work at all.

you could use this one:


http://cgi.ebay.com/PCI-E-express-16...item4aa75ab6b5

shiny so who knows....doesnt look like the cheaper ones at least

ok where's shammy bringin' us a new "RoG [Expandable]" :D 200 pounds sounds crazy for some well done wires - but seems like here it does make sense to spend a bit more ;)

Today i benched again with Extender...but is not well as yesterday...
I got 20 liters LN2...then did try modern SO (Vista /Seven)...
I did try 3DM05 to Vista and AM3 to W7
I am not sure, but i think i could get a lit bit more points benching at normal way...
That s the results:

W7 - AM3
Increasing VGA clocks to 1450...1460 (RAM 1300~1320 Mhz)...system sucks and get down the scores...
Best i got with about 1431 Mhz VGA (PCI Ex at 118)

http://i56.tinypic.com/28a6fz6.jpg

Vista 3DM05 sucks at GTX 580...i don t know why...but is possible 05 is better to use the old GTX480 to better scores (not sure)...
Can't go more than 1238 Mhz...and increase the RAM decrease the scores...
I know CPU score is very important...and i got 6355 Mgz but i don t know why FPS get down (something like lowbug...but i don t know why...my card have no lowbug and usually bench about -170C)

http://i52.tinypic.com/5lt0z7.jpg

Need to test with no Extender to know...but i think the Extender can make me lose a lit bit of points...
Today i have lots of issues...possible cause the modern operacional system (W7 an Vista).
A diferent behavior to bench...and sometimes performance get down in the middle of benchmark...
I know it happens and its normal to extreme overclockers...so i need to test many more times, settings, benchs to know how good is the Extender to scores...
Only thing i know its the system have a very well behavior benching 06 at XP yesterday..


Update you later

Best regards

Really interesting info there about your sessions. Hope you can find out more about the scores and difference between using that extender and the regular motherboard slot.
Cool pictures, first time I've seen the extender in action and scores. :up:

Its a good option since u can use better the space that it brings to the mobo as for the better acessibility to coll the mobo itself.

Im very interresting in this thread and looking forward for comparison scores.