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8 hours ago, Dschijn said:

Yes! Most riser cables are of poor quality and can cause stability problems due to signal degeneration!

If you must you a riser, you can try and go the "cheap" way. If it doesn't work or you want to get sth with quality in the dirst place, get a 50$ shielded riser without power and power with the barrel plug.

Any link for the raiser? Thanks for the help bro

On 1/29/2016 at 1:47 AM, Dschijn said:

Yes, you will only need the powered riser OR the modded barrel plug.

I heard that the barrel plug is recommended over the powered raiser. Is it because it more stable or any reason?

So if you use the powered raiser, we won't need to plug the molex in the Akitio?

@SquidgyDude, sorry to hear your problem man. How in the world your board fried with the proper voltage in the barrel like that.

@Dschijn Is there any way we can check the power to prevent something like this buddy?

Thanks everyone for sharing your exp

Thanks a lot for your answer. So with that being said. The purpose of the riser is to supply power to the PCIe GPU, so in this case with external PSU we won't need to connect power to Atikio box at all. Am I correct? And can you tell me which raiser do you preferred?

That is a very nice work. I have a Sapphire HD 7950 3GB laying around. So to start this project I need these items:

- AKiTiO Thunder2

- PSU

- PCIe riser

What is the setup schematic looks like? 2 six pin connector to GPU, power plug to PCIe riser, and connector to power up PSU? Am I correct? Please let me know. Thank you

What is this part right here may I ask? So I have a 2011 MBP Sandy Bridge and a Sapphire HD7950 3GB, I just need Akitio Box and x16 riser and a power supply to make an eGPU? I tried to search how to connect PSU to Akitio but no luck. Where can I find this guide? Please let me know. Thank you