Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs

Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by simoncion on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @04:04PM (#42627437)

I would suggest getting a case that has a set of inbuilt (typically vertically-oriented) expansion card slots positioned a distance away from the regular expansion card slots, mount your graphics card there, and connect it to the motherboard with a PCI-E riser cable. It's what I did and I kicked myself for not doing it years prior.

I have no experience with PCI-E 5 cables, but I've a PCI-E 4 riser cable from Athena Power that works just fine (and that you can buy right now on Newegg). It doesn't have any special locking mechanism, so I was concerned that it would work its way off of the card or out of the mobo slot... but it has been in place for years now with no problem.

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Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by brokenmachine on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @06:03PM (#42628780)

Can you link to an example case and riser cable?

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Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by simoncion on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @09:04PM (#42630132)

I shouldn't have to link to the cable given that I said "Athena Power" and "Newegg", but sure, here you go. [0] Their Newegg store is here. [1] (They also sell that cable in different lengths.)

The "away from motherboard expansion card slots feature" isn't particularly uncommon on cases. One case that came up with a quick look around is the Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2. [2] I've seen other case manufacturers include this feature, but couldn't be arsed to spend more than a couple of minutes looking around to find more than one example to link to.

Also, there are a few smaller companies out there that make adapters [3] that will screw into a 140mm fan mounting hole and serve as an "away from motherboard" mounting bracket. You would need to remove any grilles from the mounting hole to make use of this for a graphics card.

[0] https://www.newegg.com/athena-power-8-extension-cable-black/...

[1] https://www.newegg.com/Athena-Power/BrandStore/ID-1849

[2] https://phanteks.com/product/enthoo-pro-2-tg

[3] Really, they're usually just machined metal rectangular donuts... calling them "adapters" makes them sound fancier than they are.

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Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by brokenmachine on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @05:15PM (#42639060)

Man, things are getting really large and unwieldy with these giant GPUs we have nowadays.

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