2U PCI card with ribbon extender?

**grimor2000** · 02-13-2006, 08:16 AM

I currently have a SP13000 with a 2U PCI extender that extends the 2 cards away from the board. I haven't been able to find a PCI raiser that will extend the 2 slots over the board. Will a ribbon type extender or any tall 90degree extender work with the 2U riser so that I can have the PCI card oriented vert. or back over the top of the board? The extenders aren't the cheapest things to buy so I don't want to waste time and money getting ones that don't support the 2U card.

Thanks

**tom61** · 02-14-2006, 04:58 PM

So you want something that is like this:
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instead of:

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?

If yes, then yes, I forgot the terms, but you can get risers to face either direction. Take a look at the notch in pics and orient off that. Flexible risers tend to not be able to twist a full 180 degrees (if you get one with a remotely short cable), so only get one if it is already pointing in the correct direction.

**grimor2000** · 02-15-2006, 07:29 PM

I have one pointing the wrong direction, I haven't been able to find one going over the board. I was thinking that if I find a flexible extender that I can plug the dual riser in, I can go from

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to

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and just use the ribbon extender to point the riser up instead of left. but I'm not sure what extender would let me use the dual riser