Been some talk about these and as i had 2 delivered thought id post my impressions of them. Puget now for some reason don't ship these to the uk anymore, no idea why.
Installation is easy and theres a good degree of adjustibility. But the fact is for cards with triple fans like my strix its not reccomended. My card only has a slight sag which this rectifies pretty easily, but its fiddly to do as the only place it can push against is between the fans and it has to be positioned higher (the block should be beneath the bracket ideally). If you screw it in from the top it seems to push too hard against the housing and cause the fan to hit against the shroud.
The other issue is temperatures, something i didn't expect to be affected but was. I'm guessing with this bracket pushing the card upwards its slightly offsetting the heatsinks core contact and temperatures went from about 75c load at 1425mhz to around 81c load at the same clocks.
For a regular card like a stock 980ti it probably works well, but with a card with triple fans like the strix it just causes issues. If the bracket could push against the central area of the card then I've no doubt it wouldn't affect temps as it would be pressing around the middle of the heatsink, but that's not an option with this card unfortunately.
Installation is easy and theres a good degree of adjustibility. But the fact is for cards with triple fans like my strix its not reccomended. My card only has a slight sag which this rectifies pretty easily, but its fiddly to do as the only place it can push against is between the fans and it has to be positioned higher (the block should be beneath the bracket ideally). If you screw it in from the top it seems to push too hard against the housing and cause the fan to hit against the shroud.
The other issue is temperatures, something i didn't expect to be affected but was. I'm guessing with this bracket pushing the card upwards its slightly offsetting the heatsinks core contact and temperatures went from about 75c load at 1425mhz to around 81c load at the same clocks.
For a regular card like a stock 980ti it probably works well, but with a card with triple fans like the strix it just causes issues. If the bracket could push against the central area of the card then I've no doubt it wouldn't affect temps as it would be pressing around the middle of the heatsink, but that's not an option with this card unfortunately.
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