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The retention clip on my motherboard is broke. Will it affect anything or not?

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It will be fine because the card will be screwed into the case.

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You only have one PCI slot? 

 

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Two, but just wondering. The broken one is the 3.0 16x, the not broken one is 2.0 4x (16x size slot)

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If you have a heavy graphics card then it'll sag and likely snap the slot.

That worries me. I broke the retention arm on my motherboard and am running a. 4870 in it. We'll just have to see how long it lasts.
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It shouldn't affect anything as long as the card is screwed in to the back of your case.

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Mine broke too lol, on my Asrock Extreme 4, its the first PCI-E x16 slot closest to the CPU. And I am running 2-Way SLI in that build. The cards don't seem to be sagging though, they are pretty tightly screwed to the case, so the board and cards should be ok. I have had this build for a little over a year, and the Clip broke as I was first building it a little over a year ago. And I haven't had any problems so far.

 

However, if you move the case around a lot, that tension could break something, But its unlikely (Depending on how rough you are while moving the case).

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It's fine. It just keeps the card from sliding out when it shouldn't.

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That worries me. I broke the retention arm on my motherboard and am running a. 4870 in it. We'll just have to see how long it lasts.

I mean like the thing is actually beefy and has some serious weight to it. 4870's are light compared to say a 270x and up.

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I mean like the thing is actually beefy and has some serious weight to it. 4870's are light compared to say a 270x and up.

I'm running a GTX 780 reference in my PCI slot with no clip (since I broke it off). It's held up perfectly fine. I mean, it's tightly screwed in, but it's held up.

 

If you use the clip but don't screw in the GPU, there's as much of a chance of ripping the slot out as if you didn't, if not higher.

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