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frozensun
By frozensun
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When I unplugged the card,wanted to clean the fans,I noticed this pin like half of length.

Is this intenional or I got broke pin?

Why is it like this?

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Please do not take offence for my apparent confusion or rudeness,it's not intent me to be like that,it's just my BPD,be nice to me,and I'll return twice better,be rude and usually I get easly pissed of...I'll try to help anyone here,as long as it's something I dealt with,and even if you think I'm rude or not polite,forgive me,  it's not me it's my BPD.

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The shorter pin is like that on all graphics cards I've seen so it's intentional, but I honestly don't have a single clue as to why it's shorter.

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I wonder why...can someone explain...hope someone knows...

OK thx guys,I thought I got deffected card.

 

Please do not take offence for my apparent confusion or rudeness,it's not intent me to be like that,it's just my BPD,be nice to me,and I'll return twice better,be rude and usually I get easly pissed of...I'll try to help anyone here,as long as it's something I dealt with,and even if you think I'm rude or not polite,forgive me,  it's not me it's my BPD.

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1 minute ago, frozensun said:

I wonder why...can someone explain...hope someone knows...

OK thx guys,I thought I got deffected card.

So I did a bit of googling...

 

I think a dude on SuperUser sums it up the best:

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What you’re seeing is actually not a broken connector. These pins are intentionally kept short so they connect last. Remember that PCIe is hot-plug capable, you can add (and theoretically also remove) cards in a running system. If you look inside a USB plug, you can see something similar: The data pins are shorter than the power supply pins.

The short pin near the rear of the card is “PRSNT2#”. The one to the front is “PRSNT1#”. It’s connected to the rear pin and informs the motherboard of the length (in PCIe channels) of the card. There are multiple possible “PRSNT2#” locations, one for each possible card length.

 

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15 minutes ago, Uptivuptiz said:

So I did a bit of googling...

 

I think a dude on SuperUser sums it up the best:

 

Length in PCI channels hmmm wtf is that....

Ok nevermind thank you for your time...

 

Please do not take offence for my apparent confusion or rudeness,it's not intent me to be like that,it's just my BPD,be nice to me,and I'll return twice better,be rude and usually I get easly pissed of...I'll try to help anyone here,as long as it's something I dealt with,and even if you think I'm rude or not polite,forgive me,  it's not me it's my BPD.

Thanks for understanding.

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Just now, frozensun said:

Length in PCI channels hmmm wtf is that....

Ok nevermind thank you for your time...

"Length" in this case is referring to how many lanes the graphics card has.

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10 minutes ago, Uptivuptiz said:

"Length" in this case is referring to how many lanes the graphics card has.

I thought that is standard for all pcie 3.0 cards...

 

Please do not take offence for my apparent confusion or rudeness,it's not intent me to be like that,it's just my BPD,be nice to me,and I'll return twice better,be rude and usually I get easly pissed of...I'll try to help anyone here,as long as it's something I dealt with,and even if you think I'm rude or not polite,forgive me,  it's not me it's my BPD.

Thanks for understanding.

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5 minutes ago, frozensun said:

I thought that is standard for all pcie 3.0 cards...

Well, as far as I remember (pls dont quote me on this) the Nvidia cards up until the 10 series is running PCIe Gen 3 8x where as the 10 series and up is running PCIe Gen 3 16x.

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