Does a vertical gpu riser needs to be grounded with the screws?

[Abel789]

Hello all, recently I upgraded my gpu riser from pcie 3.0 to 4.0 and I found that the new screw holes doesn´t match with the old ones so I used double sided gummy tape to create a bed and don´t have the card floating as you can see in the picture. That made me think that maybe those two screws were there with contact pads for a reason to ground the pci port but in the flip side I think the gpu is also grounded to the case.

 

Are those 2 screws needed then?

 

 

Thank you

 

Greetings.

[Neggy-Z]

While they may offer some sort of grounding they are mainly there to secure the riser pcb to the rest of the vertical mount.

[Abel789]

6 hours ago, Neggy-Z said:

While they may offer some sort of grounding they are mainly there to secure the riser pcb to the rest of the vertical mount.

 

Yea, I was thinking the same but I saw the copper around the hole just like in the mb and it annoyed me haha. 

 

Thank you.