GPU Bending

[xauth]

Not sure if this is a common issue or not but my graphics card appears to have a slight curve/bend towards the right side of it -

I've re-seated it into several different PCIe slots on the board and same thing on every slot. Is this the card? Board? Slot? or is this completely normal?
The GPU is straight when taken out and the slots as far as I can tell are not bent either.
GPU is a Nvidia GTX 970 ACX 2.0 FTW Edition.

 

[Hi-Fi Man]

This is unfortunately normal for cards without a backplate. My semi solution involved this:

 

[xauth]

This is unfortunately normal for cards without a backplate. My semi solution involved this:

Interesting, just ordered a backplate for my card, hopefully it will remedy the issue 😱
Thanks!

 

[MongGrel]

Yeah, it's pretty normal.

Tie wraps are good it strategically located, I even had one that a rubber gum eraser underneath it at the rear off another object worked perfectly.

It looks to be bending less than some I've seen.

I just tie wrapped the cables going to the rear on mine on the case frame near the current one on the main, the cables are thick enough to support the rear when secured.

I know I posted this earlier on another thread, but ran mine up the side and a couple tie wraps on the frame with the heavy cabling actually holds it up well.

Thick cables can be pretty supportive.

I'm using them to prop the card up a bit, rather than add weight to it.

 

[sam_816]

I thought I had a similar problem with my last card so I bought a new case with horizontal mobo placement. Coming back to ur problem. I can suggest an unconventional solution. U can find balloon holders (long plastic sticks with suction cup shaped piece on the end) at mcdonalds or places that sell party 'things'.

You can cut the stick to any length u want.

Also I will suggest you to put ballon stick or cable tie when ur card is hot I.e. After a heavy gaming session.