gpu wont fit in pc

[orbitalwalsh]

I didn't read the rest of the post but some cards will not fit some motherboards. A real classic is that some Gigabyte 1080's will not fit in some of the more expensive Gigabyte motherboards. The simple reason is there is something in the way that stops the card going all the way down. In the case of the Gigabyte motherboards its a senseless piece of plastic that covers the audio chip.

Think orbitalwalsh and Pocah are right about it being the motherboard cover plate.

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gigabyte corrected their cards issues for their products not working on their own and others boards what have plastics covering the bottom left hand side of mobo's .

EVGA might be using a IO PCI plate that had the same issue - technically they don't have to correct it as they dont have any mobo's with covers like asus/msi/asrock and gigabyte do .

 

[Bumblebox]

Not sure what motherboard he is using as the first looks to be ASUS Sabertooth Z170 and the other looks to be the Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7.

If it's the Sabertooth, it should fit in the second slot, but if it's the Aorus it wont as the cover plate runs down to the bottom of the board.

does the board have another slot to try it in?

Think orbitalwalsh and Pocah are right about it being the motherboard cover plate.

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Think orbitalwalsh and Pocah are right about it being the motherboard cover plate.

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youre correct in what motherboards they are, i think i know what you mean with the "amp up audio" thing on the aorus board, from what i can tell it doesnt interfere with the card and seems to have a similar problem as with the sabertooth+fractal r5. if the card is locked in the pcie slot, am i suppose to be able to yank out the left side or is it suppose to be locked in with the right side? ive had a 1080 amp extreme, a 1070 gigabyte, and a 1080 ti strix in the fractal case with no problems at all, so i have no clue why this card suddenly does

 

[Bumblebox]

sorry accidently put response in someone elses post:
youre correct in what motherboards they are, i think i know what you mean with the "amp up audio" thing on the aorus board, from what i can tell it doesnt interfere with the card and seems to have a similar problem as with the sabertooth+fractal r5. if the card is locked in the pcie slot, am i suppose to be able to yank out the left side or is it suppose to be locked in with the right side? ive had a 1080 amp extreme, a 1070 gigabyte, and a 1080 ti strix in the fractal case with no problems at all, so i have no clue why this card suddenly does