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You may have signal integrity issues with an approach like this as well without a completely custom connector. Otherwise there would be multiple extenders with the bifurcation in the middle. The PCI-e specification supports only a limited number of interconnects...I forget what the limit is for PCI-e 3.0 (might be 3), but with PCI-e 4.0 it will be pretty much a hard stop at two interconnects (signalling will rise up to 8GHz), so a single extender, including those that do the bifurcation. Many of the mass produce slim cases that have the rigid right angle plus riser combo will have to change, probably to a flex riser, when PCI-e 4.0 comes to market.

[QUOTE="|||, post: 8479, member: 110"] You may have signal integrity issues with an approach like this as well without a completely custom connector. Otherwise there would be multiple extenders with the bifurcation in the middle. The PCI-e specification supports only a limited number of interconnects...I forget what the limit is for PCI-e 3.0 (might be 3), but with PCI-e 4.0 it will be pretty much a hard stop at two interconnects (signalling will rise up to 8GHz), so a single extender, including those that do the bifurcation. Many of the mass produce slim cases that have the rigid right angle plus riser combo will have to change, probably to a flex riser, when PCI-e 4.0 comes to market. [/QUOTE]

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