Vaneea, I am really curious how stable that 30cm PCIe cable is when doing heavy gaming. Is that the 30cm cable from
www.moddiy.com? Is it shielded?
John, i bought my extender from ebay.com since i could not find any reliable provider in Romania nor shops or websites from Europe that charge below 30E for shipping if they ship at all ( except from those who bought the same product and add 100% in profit), the item code is 151194999452. Indeed there is a problem with long extenders, i have searched for benchmarks and the performance penalty while using extenders is not that big BUT there is a possibility to have a BSOD from time to time. I am not that much of a hardcore gamer ( fallout 3 regular user, cossacks 2 or age of empires 2 casual ) so i hope i will not have too much problems.
I just realized i haven't said my complete hardware specs, so there it is:
Mobo: Asus p8h67 -i PRO
CPU: Intel i3 -2120
RAM: 2x 4gb ddr3 1333Mhz (SO-DIMM)
GPU: Asus Nvidia GTX 260 GL+ 896MB ddr3 448b
PSU: Normal ATX Intertech 700W - stripped down to bare PCB and minimum cabling required
SSD: Samsung pro 830 256GB SSD Sata 2
HDD: If it fits WD 2TB hdd
Main chassis fan : Delta Electronics AFB1212HHE with pwm and maximum 123CFM (12v 0.7A), it worked great in the preliminary tests
Top Chasis fan: Either the default 120 mm fan that came with the PSU, which is thermally controlled, or a 90 mm Enermax low speed fan with temperature sensor.