Wednesday, November 27th 2019
ASUS Intros ROG Strix PCIe Riser Cable
Quite a few cases have a pair of vertical expansion slots that let you show off your graphics card through the glass side-panel, but don't include a PCIe riser cable. ASUS swooped in with a solution, the ROG Strix Riser Cable. Possibly the first ROG Strix product in years without any RGB LED illumination, the Riser features of a thick base plate that doubles up as PCB, with a metal reinforced PCI-Express x16 slot, dubbed Safe Slot. ASUS uses this slot in many of its premium ROG-branded motherboards. It offers up to 1.8x shearing force endurance compared to a traditional unshielded plastic slot. The baseplate is connected to a thick ribbon cable with rubber outer insulation, which connects to the PCIe x16 gold fingers. ASUS did not mention the length of the cable, but states the total dimensions of the accessory as 240 mm x 127 mm x 10 mm (LxWxH), so the cable should probably be 18-20 cm in length, if not more. The company didn't reveal pricing or availability information.
20 Comments on ASUS Intros ROG Strix PCIe Riser Cable
Its not like anyone else makes them
Why?
a pc part without R.f'n.G.f'n.B....
Pleeeze tell me it aint so, cause the world will surely be imploding upon itself soon if this is true.... we're ALL doomed now
Hey Scotty, pleeeze beam me up quickly before I die :respect:...:roll:...:D
look....
I have the cooler master one and while initially the quality seems fine, after a couple of re-seats its all crinkly and I don't trust it as much anymore
Quality is key for these things especially if the GPU is worth a grand
This would be for people using water cooling on graphics cards that can be single slot with a waterblock, though I don't know how many of those there are any more either.
A good riser is not cheap, nor will any future pcie4 one be so.