GPU Riser cards - Connection Time out?

crystal3d

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Hello all!

All was great with my gaming/rendering case RVZ01! untill the GPU started to black out...
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This case has a riser card:
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Sometimes, while gaming or Unigine benchmarking... and sometimes just on the desktop, I get "blue screens" or "GPU stopped responding" messages

It was a very frustrating experience... in the end i had to buy an extra powerful PSU, and mount everything on another case to trouble shoot the problem.

it was found to be the Riser card.(pictured above) To prove that error, i brought out another riser card. This card is 6 times longer than RVZ01's...
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The moment i used that, the error started to occur much more frequent. Infact, i could not even open "Control Panel" because of the never ending, screen blackout and "Geforce driver kernel 372.xx stopped responding, try increasing timeout limit etc..."


So in this case, even though the number of people able to use this case and much more power hungry GPUs... Mine can not keep stability because the Riser card, adding to the overall connection lenght...

Is there anything possible to get rid of this? like increasing some volts or such?