LINKUP - Extreme4+ PCIe 4 Review

Didn't work initially. I tried setting the PCI Express slot to 4.0 and Auto and it crashed for a few minutes while playing, regardless of the settings. What I have found works for this. Update the motherboard BIOS to the latest version. Mine was released in late 2019 and didn't work. Please note that your settings may be reset during the upgrade, so set the PCI Express slot to 4.0 after the upgrade. Also update your graphics driver to the latest version - mine was a few months old. With these…

No more BIOS setting for PCIE slot on Gen 3! Confirmed that it works great on Gen 4 with EVGA 3090 FTW3 on Asus X570 board! I didn't realize the importance of having a Gen 4 capable cable until I updated my BIOS, reset my settings to Auto (resulting in my old vertical cable NOT working) and water cooled my hard tube graphics card is. . It wasn't much fun disconnecting the tube, putting the graphics card in a slot without a stand, putting the motherboard back into Gen 3, swapping the card back…

I have a Lian-Li O11 Dynamic XL case with a Lian-Li vertical GPU mount. It worked fine with my old 1080 Ti GPU with PCIE 3.0. I had a lot of issues with the new GPU and blamed the faulty card until I realized that after setting the PCIE mode to 3.0 in the BIOS all issues were resolved. The system is an X570 phone with Ryzen 5950x. Everything must support PCIE 4.0. I wanted to try a new vertical cable that "supports" PCIE 4.0 and saw this. I just installed it and so far everything works fine…

TL/DR. Works for me at Gen 4 speed without freezing. Full Story. Asus Strix X570-F with BIOS version 3001 (latest version 12/8), CPU 5800X, 3600 CL16 Ram, Zotac 3090, Sabrent Rocket Gen 4 M.2. All Gen3/Gen4 related settings are set to automatic in the BIOS and always have been. I set up my GPU for vertical mounting with this cable without any further modifications and voila. Booted directly into Windows. The games run perfectly. No stuttering, weird noises or anything else I've read about in…

I recently ordered and tested Louqe Cobalt vertical cable, a REAL PCIE Gen 4 vertical cable that works well with my Gen 4 16 lane BIOS configuration . I figured I could save $30 by using a PCIE 4.0 LINKUP cable instead. Spoilers: I can't. Compared to the Louqe Cobalt, the signal transmitted through this LINKUP cable causes my display to stutter and the transmitted audio to hum, crackle and crackle. Gen 3 mode works fine when selected in the BIOS, but I bought this product because of the claimed

The biggest problem you will encounter when installing a PCIe 4.0 card vertically on a 4.0 motherboard is the PCIe -3rd generation risers. Setting PCI slot #1 to PCIe Gen 3 in uefi/bios solves this problem. However, if you update the BIOS or otherwise, PCI slot #1 will revert to PCI-Gen. 4, lose the yadda yadda video signal. So here is this PCIe Gen.4 25mm adapter for my Gigabyte x570 ultra and Asus 6800xt lc. So the short answer is that it works. BUT with reservations. I got a 50% drop in…

I ordered a 20cm rectangular vertical cable to replace the incompatible 3.0 cable that came with the Phanteks vertical GPU. To my dismay, I couldn't get the included cable to work with my Gen4 GPU (the RTX-3090 in this case) and had to double the price of the original mount to get it working. So here are the pros and cons. : Pros: - Riser cable works as advertised with x570 motherboard and 30 series GPU @ PCI-e Gen4. install Disadvantages: -Price. At $62.95, this cable is absurdly expensive…

I used to mount graphics cards vertically for a while, but when they became available I upgraded to 3090 RTX and had to switch back to horizontal. Why? Because the vertical mounting kit I used before had a vertical cable that just didn't work with Nvidia 3000 series GPUs, I ordered this cable and now it works, back to vertical mounting! I ordered 20cm, my case is Lian Li 011 XL. It's a bit longer to be honest, I think I could do with a 15cm cable, but it would be tight. In fact, for newer cards