Curved gtx 970 gigabyte windforce

PWforPower · October 20, 2020

I today bought GIGABYTE GTX 970 WindForce 3X OC from guy who today posted ad and I was first ad viewer, so I bought it.

It was only 70$, butttt it is curved like on photo

and it perfectly works, temps ok, all okay, all infromation provided from seller to me, so he will get negative feedback if something isnt as he said, on his 8000 positive feedback, so it not worth to lay me.

So what do you think about gpu, have you ever seen this before. How could it happen ?

Shimejii · October 20, 2020

It happens over time if its sagged, or during shipping. Looks like the PCB is mostly okay, the Cooler though holy fuck is it bent. It seems to be mostly making proper contact and as long as thermals are okay you shouldnt have an issue

jaslion · October 20, 2020

8 minutes ago, PWforPower said:

I today bought GIGABYTE GTX 970 WindForce 3X OC from guy who today posted ad and I was first ad viewer, so I bought it.

It was only 70$, butttt it is curved like on photo

and it perfectly works, temps ok, all okay, all infromation provided from seller to me, so he will get negative feedback if something isnt as he said, on his 8000 positive feedback, so it not worth to lay me.

So what do you think about gpu, have you ever seen this before. How could it happen ?

Happens. Gpu sag is common got a strix 970 that was in my little brothers computer that is in the same state and still works fine. Basically if temps are good then it's alright. What you do want to do is support the back of the card so it doesn't bow down more in the case. You can use fishing line, legos, actual gpu bracket that isn't only attached to the back of the case,... Anything really that props the back up a bit so it sits flat.