You aren't a real miner unless you are using ribbon risers.
Still running a bunch of those.
heh yeah i still have some from btc gpu mining days, did the molex mod on them.
now im riserless and dont miss em a bit

See thats what i dont understand, since getting everything secured and deleting all connectors that i can... and soldering the wires my riser issues have pretty much dissipated... most of the issues ive had in the past was from sag on the gpu's over time in the pcie slot and the pcie adapter coming loose from viberations... between clips i printed and hot glue... everything is running smooth as butter....