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It can lead to the heatsink of the card not contacting all of it's pads after a while; so you should correct it; but this isn't 24 and it''s no immediate risk.

 

Backplates are awesome as mentioned but pricey and not all cards have them as an option; look into a GPU brace.  Generally a cheap piece of metal that is basically a long stick that goes from the floor of your case and then attaches to the card in some manner.

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I think backplates help?

 

maybe

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It can lead to the heatsink of the card not contacting all of it's pads after a while; so you should correct it; but this isn't 24 and it''s no immediate risk.

 

Backplates are awesome as mentioned but pricey and not all cards have them as an option; look into a GPU brace.  Generally a cheap piece of metal that is basically a long stick that goes from the floor of your case and then attaches to the card in some manner.

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It can lead to the heatsink of the card not contacting all of it's pads after a while; so you should correct it; but this isn't 24 and it''s no immediate risk.

 

Backplates are awesome as mentioned but pricey and not all cards have them as an option; look into a GPU brace.  Generally a cheap piece of metal that is basically a long stick that goes from the floor of your case and then attaches to the card in some manner.

Alright cool! Thanks a lot! Any idea where I can find one of those braces? I saw the most recent case that Linus review had one but I had never seen them before.

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my GTX 670 has a backplate and it still sags :/

 

this is normal for video cards.

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It can lead to the heatsink of the card not contacting all of it's pads after a while; so you should correct it; but this isn't 24 and it''s no immediate risk.

 

Backplates are awesome as mentioned but pricey and not all cards have them as an option; look into a GPU brace.  Generally a cheap piece of metal that is basically a long stick that goes from the floor of your case and then attaches to the card in some manner.

Is GPU the graphics card literally bending or is it the PCIe slot?

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One of my 270s has a bit of sag. Doesn't seem to affect anything and I don't want to put in some ghetto ugly fix so I ignore it.

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Yeah I was actually just looking at this earlier. Thanks a lot man.

am thinking of getting one myself if my card sags with the new back plate

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