Bad idea to have cables near a video card?

[AndyD2k]

Boy do I keep running into issue after issue with my new build. My EATX12V cable is just long enough to make the connector on the board. The issue with this is that I have no way of keeping the cable away enough from the video card. Can heat be a problem? It's not really touching at the moment but I would think that the cable will move about and will end up touching the card considering how close the cable is to the card.

 

[BernardP]

I understand your concern. If the videocard is passively-cooled, the heatsink might be very hot. If it is fan-cooled the part of the card that the cable would touch is probably not that hot. To be safe, you could try fastening a piece of heat-insulating material to the cable on the spot where it risks touching the cable. Asbestos would be perfect if you can find a little square of thick asbestos paper. There are often pieces of this around older heating furnaces.

No, this kind of asbestos is not dangerous.

 

[cmdrdredd]

it's not a problem. Most motherboards have the ATX cable at the top of the board near the CPU socket, to reach it with a case that has the PSu mounted at the bottom means you have to run the wire up over your pci cards.