card warping

jeff_mcormick · 13 Nov 2014 at 17:32

Hi all. I've had my card a few months now and the board is starting to bend down slightly on the side closest to the HDD bays. So far I've wedged a box under it but now it looks abit naff. Google searches show that this is common. What do you guys do to stop it? Use a box like me? Or is there a proper solution

jh30uk · 13 Nov 2014 at 17:46

http://www.powercolor.com/us/products_Accessories_features.asp?id=1

Doco · 13 Nov 2014 at 17:51

What brand out of curiosity? And can you show pictures?

I had some bad warping myself on one of my cards - the cooler was actually prying away from the pcb :-/

thesmokingman · 13 Nov 2014 at 17:54

jeff_mcormick said:
Hi all. I've had my card a few months now and the board is starting to bend down slightly on the side closest to the HDD bays. So far I've wedged a box under it but now it looks abit naff. Google searches show that this is common. What do you guys do to stop it? Use a box like me? Or is there a proper solution

Can you reroute the power cables to above the card? That way you can set it up to pull the card up. Or fashion a pole/stick. The stick or pencil works fine, spray paint it black and it mostly disappears. There's also the old fishing line method too.

Pr3d4t0r · 13 Nov 2014 at 17:56

happens quite often with heavier cards, best thing to do is get a backplate, don't think powercolor has one, pcie bracket support from ebay, some cases come with those prebuilt just to support heavier cards.

apart from that not much you can do imo, lay pc on side or use risers and mount it vertically within case.

wazza300 · 13 Nov 2014 at 17:59

use some psu wire slack and pull or hoist it up,thats what I do

jeff_mcormick · 13 Nov 2014 at 18:00

It's a sapphire Radeon R9 270X and no. I only have mobile internet atm and poor signal. Prob get 3kbps if lucky lol

I've just organized the cables perfect lol im not redoing that. I'll just have to use a black pipe or something for now. Gotta check jh30uk's link yet tho

jh30uk · 13 Nov 2014 at 18:02

Some support with a thin wire from roof of case, I am not sure you can still buy that product I linked to, try E-Gay.

jeff_mcormick · 13 Nov 2014 at 18:05

@jh30uk That made me smile when I saw that. As if someone invented that. Brilliant!

Disco_P · 13 Nov 2014 at 18:06

I just tied a bit of string to the roof of my case and the power connectors and pulled it taught.

wazza300 · 13 Nov 2014 at 18:07

pop down mcdonalds n steal a drinking straw,cut to fit n prop it up

jeff_mcormick · 13 Nov 2014 at 18:09

Gd idea. Now just gotta get some black string

jh30uk · 13 Nov 2014 at 18:10

I just put a wad of £50's under mines.

wazza300 · 13 Nov 2014 at 18:11

yh only NVidia folks can afford to do that

jh30uk · 13 Nov 2014 at 18:16

Well the Titan type cooler is so solid it does not sag from its PCB but just in case the weight shears off a PCI-E slot.

Confused Stu · 13 Nov 2014 at 19:17

Got a case with a rotated motherboard (I went for the RV03 as I genuinely like the looks, but most of the Silverstone RV or FT ranges are also rotated) and you'll never need to worry about GPU sag again.

However, if I didn't have this case, I'd be straight down McD's for a straw and spray paint it black - excellent idea Wazza.

Orangey · 13 Nov 2014 at 19:43

PowerJack was discontinued long ago, not sure if it was ever really produced.

Spraypainted bit of dowel is one cheap trick I've seen.

rounddodger · 13 Nov 2014 at 20:30

+1 for the backplate if one's available. No sag here!

mick4545 · 13 Nov 2014 at 20:42

I prop mine up with a pencil cut to size, the rubber on the end helps to keep it in place. A red one maches my colour scheme.

jh30uk · 13 Nov 2014 at 21:52

You do not want a ******* BTX case.