![]() Oct 5th 2022 Fractal Design Lumen AIO-series Manufacturing Issue Affects CPU-Temperatures: Replacements Offered (13).Dec 5th 2022 Enterprise SSD Revenue Slid to US$5.22 Billion for 3Q22 and Will Fall by Another 20% for 4Q22 (4).Oct 2nd 2022 First B650 Motherboard Pricing Detailed by B&H (72).Dec 7th 2022 Fractal Design Introduces the North Mid-tower Case with Wooden Elements (15).Nov 17th 2022 Fractal Announces the Ridge SFF Chassis (15).Apr 10th 2023 ATP Electronics Introduces PCIe 4.0 x2 CFexpess Type B Cards (1).Mar 31st 2023 ASUS Unveils Three AMD A620 Chipset Based Motherboards (12).Feb 1st 2023 AMD A620 Chipset Specs Potentially Revealed (39). ![]() May 31st 2022 AMD Zen 4 & Socket AM5 Explained: PCIe Lanes, Chipsets, Connectivity (86).We thank you for your understanding and apologize for any inconvenience. The customer service team can also help those requiring guidance in switching to PCIe 3.0 mode. We are developing a solution to enable full PCIe 4.0 compatibility, but until that is ready, we will update our listings to reflect that only PCIe 3.0 compatibility is guaranteed.Ĭurrently affected users, please contact our customer service team at to receive assistance and continuous updates with the latest information until we have a riser replacement available. This can be enabled in the motherboard BIOS settings. The PCIe riser card supplied with Ridge has been discovered to be incompatible with some hardware configurations when run in PCIe 4.0 mode.Īfter extensive testing, we have determined that while most systems will run PCIe 4.0 using the Ridge riser card without issue, those experiencing issues with stability will need to run the system in PCIe 3.0 mode for now. The complete statement by Fractal Design follows. You lose about 2% performance at 4K Ultra HD when averaged across 25 games from our test bench, so not by much. Our GeForce RTX 4090 PCI-Express Scaling article should give you a comprehensive look at how much performance you stand to lose by running an RTX 4090-currently the fastest graphics card-in PCIe Gen 3 mode. A simpler design choice would've been to use flexible PCIe Gen 4-rated cables, and a single point of exchange. The first, larger, rectangular PCB connects to your motherboard's PCIe slot, and turns it to a 90° angle while the second shorter PCB slots into this one, and extends the slot to your graphics card, at a 0° angle. In this above images from our review of the Fractal Ridge, you'll see that Fractal's PCIe Gen 4 riser is a wacky contraption of two PCBs, and the PCIe signal has to change hands twice before reaching your graphics card. "We are developing a solution to enable full PCIe 4.0 compatibility, but until that is ready, we will update our listings to reflect that only PCIe 3.0 compatibility is guaranteed," the company said in a statement. The company is recommending a workaround for end-users while it works on a solution: to confine PCIe to Gen 3 mode using the motherboard's UEFI setup program (BIOS setup program), in which you can restrict the x16 PEG slot to Gen 3 mode. The riser is found to be only stable with PCIe Gen 3 or lower. ![]() Fractal investigated this issue, and confirmed the issue.Īpparently, the PCIe riser included with the Fractal Ridge, while rated for PCIe Gen 4, has a design flaw that affects signal integrity. The riser included with the case meets PCI-Express 4.0 standards, but end-users started experiencing problems running their latest-generation PCIe Gen 4 graphics cards with this case, with the problem being localized to the riser cable. The case relies on a PCIe riser cable to maintain its SFF form, since the graphics card has to be oriented vertically. The Fractal Design Ridge SFF tower-type case won critical praise including from us, for its unique design, well-planned interiors, and room for even triple-slot graphics cards with a little adjustments.
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