HDX Card DigiFlex Cables

Hi,



So HDX cards come with what look like mini SATA cables as their DigiFlex cables these days and look like this:





Obviously these cables are very short and require you to have two or more PCIe X4 slots next to each other on your motherboard, which most PC motherboards do not have (there's usually a gap with a x1 slot between most x4 upwards slots).



So my question is has anyone actually tried using a normal hard drive SATA cable so they can place more than one HDX card in a machine that does not have X4 or greater slots next to each other?



Thanks!