Expansion slot passthrough riser cables?

Hardware Motherboards
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so I was dreading the thought of having to shell out extra cash on a new motherboard to get an extra expansion slot for a sound card to add to my rig... but then I found out about these "riser cards" as i am seeing them called, although they seem to just be passthrough cables... but anyway I have a Asus maximus IV gene/gen3 and have both of my pcie x 16 lanes filled with 7950's and was wanting a dedicated soundcard  (sound blaster ZX perhaps.)  but I just don't have the room as it stands right now. 

I wanted to know if anyone here had any experience with using these types of cables and if they will fry my card/mobo or not.

Here is a link to what i was considering buying.

http://www.amazon.com/PCI-E-Express-Riser-Flexible-Cable/dp/B0054CLQTI/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1357780769&sr=1-2&keywords=pci+express+4x+riser

I honestly had no clue that these existed until today when i tried looking it up after thinking that there is no reason why they couldn't exist.

Anyways, just looking for advice and if someone knows of some of these that look a bit nicer than this one then it would be nice.

Side note/ Perhaps this post doesn't actually belong in the motherboards section?? 

 

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so no one knows about them? :/

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These do in fact work however ive only used them for gpu purposes and with a sound card it may cause interference or static/white noise. so do they work? yes.

do they work for sound cards? more than likely but i cant comment as i have not tried a sound card. 

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oh, dear, i didn't think about that... i wonder if i could get a pci-e 16x passthrough and then move it past where i would install my sound card, then maybe it would be better than using a pass through for the soundcard? hmmm....