GPU sag fixed!

[BaueruTc]

My new 3090 was suffering from some bad GPU sag which was doing my head in and was painful to look at. Was looking at some brackets which screw onto the backplates but a few reviews said there was still sag with them. Saw this little stand online for around £10 and have to say it does its job perfectly.

GPU no longer looks like its about to snap the PCI-E port off the motherboard.

Just thought i would post a few pics to show how well the support stand works if anyone else was looking for a simple solution. It comes with a second post and arm for sli support. Did not need for mine so not installed.

dice 1d3


dice 1d3

 

[BaueruTc]

Like that, it's a clever idea and you say very discrete.

I wonder if you would still get some sag with this though as it is only supporting it on the board side. I think there might still be a bit of droop with this type installed?


Overall I am liking some of the solutions that people have come up with in this thread so far!

 

[BaueruTc]

Isn't your AIO radiator mounted upside down? The tubes should be at the bottom to make it more efficient / quieter shouldn't they?

It’s impossible in most cases to follow gamer nexus advice with 360mm rads at the front of the case. That h700 and many other cases don’t have enough clearance to have tubes at the bottom. Add to the fact most aio won’t have enough tubing to reach from cpu to bottom of case navigate around a long ass gpu.

Believe it or not I get no pump noise/bubbling at all with it mounted the way I have it. That's when it is in silent or performance mode using the cam software. Temps are all good. Seen the gamer nexus video a while after the install but I have not had any issues at all and that is with Prime 95 stress testing when I was getting my overclock stable. As TrM said there is no room to fit the rad with the connections at the bottom so it was this way or top mounted. That's the one downside to AIO where you are stuck with the stock hose lengths over building a custom loop.