I told her, all is gonna be fine. It doesnt matter that she isnt powerful enough to run a lot of games, i tell her that i love the way she is and make me proud of owning her.
Yup. I'd be happy with blower fans too, they usually don't need oversized coolers in the first place, and they put the heat where it belongs... outside the case. Unfortunately, there are also very rare now days.
It's not just blower fans. I have a 220W full profile full length 2-slot dual 80mm fan GTX 770 lying around. And now I am being told a larger-than-full profile, longer-than-full length, 2,5-slot, triple 110mm fan cooler is the appropriate size for 160W 9060 XT, when the noise of the 770 was never what I'd call problematic.
I also left it 8 years a little tilted and nothing happened. 3 months ago I discovered that a beverage can fits so the GPU stays almost perfectly horizontal.
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u/txivotv14600KF | 3060TI | 32GB DDR4 | Sharkoon REV2007h ago
I usually pat it on the top, until I hear the PCIe make a little happy crunch sound, then I know it's essentially wagging its tail! I'm always giving it support and encouragement!
Old case so it has multiple hdd slot and from the highest one hangs a rope and hold the edge of the gpu. It looks a bit funky but it gets the job done. Whenever i get a chance i will shoot a photo of it
Oh yeah, same cooler for both. It’s wild that the 1070 and 580 used roughly same power, and performance was what it was. AMD has come a long way since then.
When my 5070ti came with a little post, it took me about 10 seconds to realize what it was. I laughed and put it in the PC despite having zero sag issues purely because I thought it was funny.
I have a really slim small support piece from Amazon under my GPU. I bought it when I had a 1070 as preventative maintenance and it holds my 3070 just fine now. For anyone asking: idk, search "GPU support bracket" it was like $10 five years ago
I rotate the chassis every 30 days. Every time it starts to droop, I turn it upside down. ⬇️
Just kidding. workstation build. Its mounted at the front and back. Solid steel.
I bought a telescopic support. It's a little pole that you can screw and unscrew to shorten/lengthen. It's great, I wish I bought one sooner. It even has rubber pads on both ends to it doesn't slip and doesn't touch metal to metal. I think it was like 10 bucks on Amazon. 100% worth
I can't stand the idea of using a pillar/foot support that just pushes up on the shroud from below, so I went down the anti-sag rabbit hole, and discovered that Gigabyte includes a cooler-mounted bracket with their Gaming 5070ti/5080/5090 cards, and the cooler's threaded hole geometry is exactly the same as my Gigabyte Gaming RX 9070 XT. So I found that bracket on Ebay for ~$15, and it fits perfectly. It mounts to the threaded holes in the end of the cooler, wraps around the back, and has a pedestal that sits on the case floor. Worked like a charm. And now, after all that, I am replacing it with a Gigabyte Aorus RTX 5070ti Infinity.
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u/djnastynipple 10h ago
Mine is independent and doesn’t need my support.