• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

Bending plates...

Have you ever had to bend the metal part of a slot-card (PCIe, AGP ect) to fit it in?

  • Yes. (Post why)

    Votes: 14 53.8%

  • No.

    Votes: 12 46.2%
  • Total voters
    26
  • Poll closed .
N

Noirel

n00b
Joined
Sep 20, 2006
Messages
28
I was just wondering...

Have any of you ever had to bend the metal fixing plate on your gfx-card, specifically ATI cards? And If you have, didnt you feel a bit scared applying brute force to that metal and bend it so it could fit?

I wasnt comfortable at all bending my newbought "from the box" painfully expensive x1900xt gfx-card with some tough pliers...
 
Yes.
Cos it didnt fit!

Some cases dont align the motherboard/card to the slot very well.
Some cases have badly designed/cut guides for the plate to slot into.
Some cards can give too much variance on the metal plates position, you can either bend the plate or undo the screws and relocate the plate.
 
The minivac--er, X1900XT went into my quality Silverstone with no problems at all. I thought that the card retention thingy would play hell with it, but nope, no sweat.

The way I see it, the case is as important as the PSU. It is what protects the highly expensive parts from the outside world. If you've got a card with 'XT' on the end, you should probably buy a case in the same quality bracket (medium to high end.) Also, working on cheap cases where the screwholes never match up is a pain in the backside.
 
Got my x1800xt ran fine but of course I wanted to add as5 since it runs so hot. Damn the little dabs of white paste. Reinstalled it and the temps went up. Repaste then reseat a few times still high temps so I started thinking hmm... Took the copper heatsink off the metal plate bent it a little then reinsalled and the temps went down. Did a little more bending to make sure the heatsink was pressing down on the ram and core as much as possible and now its all better.
 
I had to because the jaunk case had no slot for the tab that sticks into the mobo tray.... so I bent it and it fit perfect :D
 
Yes, my case was that my case... (ehmm, yes?)... was a bit on the cheapy side. 110$ but as I live in Iceland everything here costs about 40% more. Eg,"its cheaper in America." :p

My cheapo case, maybe Il modd it someday:

T%20CH%20CH03SSA.jpg



Thanks for the thought on case buying alan.p . :)
 
This should only happen with cheapo-depot cases. A quality case from Lian-Li, Antec, CoolerMaster, etc should not have this problem. If it does, it is likely an abberation. In all of my years of building and working on PCs, I've only ever had this problem with very cheap cases.
 
mine was cheap :D cost me $15 ( bought from a local computer store ) it looks good on the outside but it made of flimsy aluminum and rear slots don't align with mobo perfectly and also has no holes cut in mobo plate for the little tabs on the pci/agp cards
 
When I first got my x1800xt, I found that the back metal grill was horribly bent (so much that it actually made an indentation into the PCB). When I tried to put it in the case (a Lian Li PC-7B), the screw holes were several centimeters off. I'm not sure how it got bent in it's package, but I had to forcibly bend the metal back into place with pliers. It certainly wasn't my case's fault - I still don't know what mangled my poor video card.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top