Re:Today's heavy RTX 4090s GPUs plagued with cracking around...
by henriquez on Sunday December 17, 2023 @02:36PM
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Gigabyte has a great support bracket design that screws in to two ATX holes on the motherboard and holds the card up from underneath[1]. It's one of the best designs I've seen because it bolts the weight across two planes on the case, but requires the PCI-e slots to be in a standard configuration (not a given on every board - it fit on my Z790 board but not an X670e board that I tried)
I think flat desktop cases might not be a bad answer, especially with the useless stands that come on most monitors these days with no height adjustment. Typically I need to raise a monitor several inches to not have to tilt it up and stare down at it, which is terrible posture. Going back to the old style (CRT sitting on top of a beefy steel desktop box) wouldn't be so bad.
Otherwise, even without an industry standardized max-length, enthusiast case manufacturers could solve this by providing their own brackets that span the width of the case and screw onto matching holes across from the PCI-e mounts. They could even put RGB lights on them to make them look less ugly for people with glass side panels.
I think flat desktop cases might not be a bad answer, especially with the useless stands that come on most monitors these days with no height adjustment. Typically I need to raise a monitor several inches to not have to tilt it up and stare down at it, which is terrible posture. Going back to the old style (CRT sitting on top of a beefy steel desktop box) wouldn't be so bad.
Otherwise, even without an industry standardized max-length, enthusiast case manufacturers could solve this by providing their own brackets that span the width of the case and screw onto matching holes across from the PCI-e mounts. They could even put RGB lights on them to make them look less ugly for people with glass side panels.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSYodaliYGE