GPU sag killing 2080TI cards

[aigomorla]

I'm with Buildzoid on this one. It's shipping damage. PCBs are not that easy to crack.

They are when they weigh as much as they do now causing GPU sag, and vendors are using poor pcbs.
All it takes is a bump in the Y-axis shifting, from either a tilt of your pc and fall back in position to crack that location.

You also have a locking clamp right behind it, which i absolutely hate, and remove on all my builds if my gpu is not sitting the horizonal possition.

 

[coercitiv]

Buildzoid decided he doesn't really want to weigh in on the subject:

If anyone is wondering why I deleted the video. I decided that I actually don't really care about the topic and leaving that video up would just lead to me being distracted by reading comments about something I don't care about.

 

[Heartbreaker]

They are when they weigh as much as they do now causing GPU sag, and vendors are using poor pcbs.
All it takes is a bump in the Y-axis shifting, from either a tilt of your pc and fall back in position to crack that location.

You also have a locking clamp right behind it, which i absolutely hate, and remove on all my builds if my gpu is not sitting the horizonal possition.

Given the weight of modern components, it seems like everything would be better with the old horizontal MB desktop layout.

 

[AdamK47]

A new hyped up video card controversy to drive up clicks/views.

Get angry people!

 

[AdamK47]

Buildzoid decided he doesn't really want to weigh in on the subject:

Respect for him for not wanting to participate.

 

[BFG10K]

A new hyped up video card controversy to drive up clicks/views.

Get angry people!

Yeah, much better to pretend the problem doesn't exist ("you're holding it wrong") and suck up to a $trillion corporation on an anonymous open forum. Better for the consumer, amirite?

 

[aigomorla]

Yeah, much better to pretend the problem doesn't exist ("you're holding it wrong") and suck up to a $trillion corporation on an anonymous open forum. Better for the consumer, amirite?

to be fair, marketing these days are very aggressive.
So unless your like GN that expects to never accept bribes review samples.
Your always being careful at that hand that's given out to you.

 

[beginner99]

I still have a 290x which by standrads back then was already pretty big (and only smallerdual fan versions actually fit my case). i was scared moving that PC twice with fear it might break. With a new huge GPU, I simply would not install it without a bracket or one of these support sticks. one could also just take a piece of wood but $10 for some adusjtable gpu support for a >$1000 gpu seems cheap enough.