The way the holes are drilled only works for blower style cards. If you were to continue the holes for the entire side, it may not look as nice.tempered idk but plexi I think you could if you drilled vent holes over the gpu fan. like the new mini origin with a 1080 in it. I guess you could get a glass shop to drill tempered, maybe?! I don't think this looks too bad:
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