BEYIMEI PCI-E Riser 1X to 16X for Bitcoin GPU Mining Powered Riser Adapter Card,11 Fixed Capacitors,LED Colorful Light Effect,60cm USB 3.0 Cable-for Ethereum ETH Mining (VER014-6 Pack)

Taking off one star due to an advertised feature being ‘faked’. The LED’s that are supposed to show activity will continue to show activity as long as there is power, even if the computer is shut down. The moving LED lights have no function other than decor.

As a result, next time I will choose a lesser version simply because there’s no reason to pay for features they don’t actually.

full review;
I will be honest… i’ve tried a lot of risers lately. Risers are sort of a “wild west” and a lot of it is based on personal experience and judgment (just like this review)… and well… I can say with a lot of confidence that when I first opened the BEYIMEI risers it felt “quality” and I’m probably only going to use them for a while. First let me give you my loose definition of “quality”
1) all the cards have reinforced PCIE slots even though its not necessary
2) they have a lot of capacitors… i dont know if more is better but I feel like it provides more stable hashrates (?) i think we would all feel sketched out if a riser had 0 capacitors. or 1.
3) inductance component appears higher quality
4) they just seem to have a lot of consistency
5) I was dumb one night and plugged in the PCIE wrong. Apart from a singed PCIE slot – Nothing broke. But when I did something similar before on a different riser unit – well lets just say I sat and cried under my desk.

CONs:
1) they’re really expensive relative to other brands – especially on amazon.
2) the foam insulation tends to fall off when your rigs get hot. But I’m not marking it down because I’ve had this issue with pretty much all other brands.

I bought a bunch of different BEYIMEI when I was first testing so I hope the stuff below can keep you from having to spend a lot of time figuring out the differences (and save BEYIMEI on returns 🙂 ):

VER009S (black): high quality, simple, no fuss. I recommend this if you’re doing some massive scaling.
— Reinforced PCIE slot
— 8 capacitors
— horizontal input: 6pin PCIE
— vertical input: none

VER010-X (white): it provides the most flexible power delivery options even though 6pin should be your primary choice. I recommend this if you’re tight on cash to get a sufficient PSU as a temporary solution.
— Reinforced PCIE slot
— 8 capacitors
— horizontal input: SATA (don’t use this for long-term because SATA can’t provide 75 watts)
— vertical input: 6pin PCIE (good), molex (better than SATA but still not recommended)

V011-PRO: Top tier with two 6pin options (horizontal / vertical) Also good scaling option.
— Reinforced PCIE slot
— 10 capacitors (i dont know if more is better but i would be sketched out if it had 0 capacitors so…)
— horizontal input: 6pin PCIE (good)
— vertical input: 6pin PCIE (good)
— it has police (red/blue) LEDs that just flash around and it looks pretty cool to the inner child in all of us

V013-PRO: (my personal choice) Top tier with temp digital read-out (or voltage). Also beeps after it hits like 75c as a safety.
— Reinforced PCIE slot
— 10 capacitors (i dont know if more is better but i would be sketched out if it had 0 capacitors so…)
— horizontal input: 6pin PCIE (good)
— vertical input: none
— the temp readout is pretty neat
— only red LED that lights up sequentially so its not as cool as the V011-PRO but who am I to judge.

I use the V013-PRO because i’m really paranoid about the fire-risk. I’ve already burned a PCIE slot by inserting it upside down. I said this before but mining is the wild-west and not for idiots like me. you can really mess things up and things can catch fire. I like fact that it starts yelling at you if it gets pretty hot. (also red is my favorite color)

Hope this review helps some folks out there.
May your hashrates and stability be high to help us get rich one day.