GPU sag concern

[JurajD]

Greetings dear fellows. I have a worry that I would like you to shed some light upon. I have been running with an msi rtx 2060 ventus oc for about 2 years now, and have since recently upon cleaning discovered it had picked up a decent sag. I have inspected both the pcie slot and the gpu and found that the gpu socket itself had become the culprit with its socket appearing ever so slightly bent. My question is if I should be concerned about this since a gpu upgrade seems quite a long ways off. 

 

P.s. The big cooler while horribly tedious to work around makes me feel like a big man that can't afford a big man's gpu. Thank you in advance :)

[Mick Naughty]

Wouldn't be too concerned. Card doesn't seem that beefy given the fin stack and heat pipes. The weight of the cable isn't helping though. Plenty of options for a fix though.

[freeagent]

My old GTX 580 had some mean sag to it.. go buy yourself a slurpee and when you are done rinse the straw out and cut it to size. I used a McDonalds straw.. girthy.. With my 3070 and 980 I just let them dangle and they don't need extra support.

 

If you want to get extra fancy you could use a machine screw and an hdd isolating pad and affix them to the straw like I did. But I get bored and do stuff like that not sure why..

[Mark Kaine]

honestly i have seen way worse,  it should probably be fine... 

 

However,  fret not, Jayz-daddy has something to get your gpu off the viagra (his words lol)

 

[xAcid9]

18 hours ago, JurajD said:

My question is if I should be concerned about this since a gpu upgrade seems quite a long ways off. 

Yes, you should be concern. It's not really a hard fix, just put something to hold GPU. Get creative. 

[JurajD]

Thank you all for your replies. I have ordered a brace of sorts as a temporary fix. I have a follow up question, since im looking to snag a gpu somewhere soon, should I be worried about this happening again or can I safely believe the problem lies on my current gpu and not the pcie slot.

[heatonpkmassive]

5 minutes ago, JurajD said:

Thank you all for your replies. I have ordered a brace of sorts as a temporary fix. I have a follow up question, since im looking to snag a gpu somewhere soon, should I be worried about this happening again or can I safely believe the problem lies on my current gpu and not the pcie slot.

The slot will be fine. I had an MSI Ventus 2080 and that sagged just like yours is doing. Got a 3080 FE and no sag whatsoever, FE cards just don't seem to sag. So the slot was fine, it'll be the card. 

[Bobbysixjp]

3 hours ago, JurajD said:

Thank you all for your replies. I have ordered a brace of sorts as a temporary fix. I have a follow up question, since im looking to snag a gpu somewhere soon, should I be worried about this happening again or can I safely believe the problem lies on my current gpu and not the pcie slot.

Most motherboards have some kind of reinforcement around the PCIe slot to allow for this. Your GPU isn’t that heavy, so don’t worry too much about it.