Does your GPU sag?

[Zodiark1593]

2 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

In general, it's a pretty crappy design. It has poor capacitors, and in general isn't good.

A 960 and what I'd assume to be an Intel quad won't push the lousy PSUs very hard. A 960 may be called a lot of things on many forums, but power hungry it is not. Even if the PSU is only good for 2/3 of it's rating, the aforementioned system would still fall well below what said psu can provide.

 

Had he an R9 290 or equivelant, then yes, I'd be concerned.

[EvilNeo]

My Radeon HD 4350 NEVER SAGS

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

9 hours ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Thank you again.  I just wish I found out that this was an option sooner.  I've got my Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 1070 coming tomorrow which has a backplate so hopefully it won't sag at all.  Though I'll definitely have to remember this when I reuse the 970.  

 

How did you mount that fan over the GPU?  Does it help keep the card cooler?

 

There's actually another hole there so I looped another twist tie to keep the fan in place. 

 

The fan there is actually to aid in the flow of air in the case to that everything comes out the top of the case. But that's not beneficial for everyone. I use my back fan mount as an intake which normally people will use as an exhaust. The small fan disperses the hot air that is trapped there.  

[PlayStation 2]

1 hour ago, Zodiark1593 said:

A 960 and what I'd assume to be an Intel quad won't push the lousy PSUs very hard. A 960 may be called a lot of things on many forums, but power hungry it is not. Even if the PSU is only good for 2/3 of it's rating, the aforementioned system would still fall well below what said psu can provide.

 

Had he an R9 290 or equivelant, then yes, I'd be concerned.

Yeah, I know it's not bad, but just pointing out that the PSU itself ain't great.

[Zodiark1593]

11 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Yeah, I know it's not bad, but just pointing out that the PSU itself ain't great.

In that case, completely fair comment, even more so in a system that will push a PSU. I just felt it (the comment) out of place given the rest of the system, however, you do raise a very valid point if he ever decides to upgrade to a more power-hungry card.

 

As far as PSUs go, I tend to see:

Good; the ones that are built like a tank, will output 100% for extended periods of time no problem, probably more

 

Mediocre; Probably shouldn't buy for high-powered gaming rigs, but could do worse, (The CXs and equivalents of the world seem to fall here) and

 

Exploders, ones that at any rating shouldn't ever touch anything PC related, should not even be sold, and should be treated as a Time Bomb (looks nervously at Diablotek).

[Bleedingyamato]

1 hour ago, Zodiark1593 said:

A 960 and what I'd assume to be an Intel quad won't push the lousy PSUs very hard. A 960 may be called a lot of things on many forums, but power hungry it is not. Even if the PSU is only good for 2/3 of it's rating, the aforementioned system would still fall well below what said psu can provide.

 

Had he an R9 290 or equivelant, then yes, I'd be concerned.

What things do people call a 960?  Nothing too bad I hope.  I have one in my secondary desktop.  

[Bleedingyamato]

1 hour ago, Pohernori said:

 

There's actually another hole there so I looped another twist tie to keep the fan in place. 

 

The fan there is actually to aid in the flow of air in the case to that everything comes out the top of the case. But that's not beneficial for everyone. I use my back fan mount as an intake which normally people will use as an exhaust. The small fan disperses the hot air that is trapped there.  

I've thought about using the rear mount in my cases for intake but it's WAY too dusty behind where I have both my main and secondary desktops set up.  I'd have to fidure out getting a dust filter to use on the rear mount on both towers if I ever wanted to try that.

[Zodiark1593]

20 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

What things do people call a 960?  Nothing too bad I hope.  I have one in my secondary desktop.  

They only call it the worst x60 card Nvidia ever made, or worst value, the latter of which I'd dispute by pointing at most sub-$80 video cards.

[Bleedingyamato]

33 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

They only call it the worst x60 card Nvidia ever made, or worst value, the latter of which I'd dispute by pointing at most sub-$80 video cards.

Is it the worst x60 card ever?    There are sub-$80 cards?  They can't possibly be any good.  ?

[SageOfSpice]

I think the loud ass fans on my card generate enough lift to keep it from sagging.

[jman116]

19 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Is it the worst x60 card ever?    There are sub-$80 cards?  They can't possibly be any good.  ?

I have a GT 730 and its not bad...

[Bleedingyamato]

22 minutes ago, jman116 said:

I have a GT 730 and its not bad...

Sorry...  That came across as harsher than I intended it to.  I just meant in relation to newer cards.  Given enough time any card will be dwarfed by newer cards.  

[jman116]

5 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Sorry...  That came across as harsher than I intended it to.  I just meant in relation to newer cards.  Given enough time any card will be dwarfed by newer cards.  

The price to performance is still amazing.

I opened afterburner and set the fanspeed to 100 and went; THATS what it sounds like?

Not gonna run ARK on ultra, but it's great for most games like Space Engineers and the likes.

[rowanhazard]

1 hour ago, SageOfSpice said:

I think the loud ass fans on my card generate enough lift to keep it from sagging.

My goodness I almost choked lol

[Bleedingyamato]

22 minutes ago, jman116 said:

The price to performance is still amazing.

I opened afterburner and set the fanspeed to 100 and went; THATS what it sounds like?

Not gonna run ARK on ultra, but it's great for most games like Space Engineers and the likes.

Does it get loud or is it quiet?

[jman116]

1 minute ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Does it get loud or is it quiet?

Super quiet; Pretty sure the fan's never gone above ~30% in a strenuous work load.

 

[SHADY16]

i dont think the gtx 1080 can sag can it? the FE one

[A/C]

No, but my balls do, ayyy

 

 

 

 

(somebody had to)

[Noirgheos]

On 6/27/2016 at 2:17 AM, Bleedingyamato said:

It's bending of a GPU.  That's bad I'm pretty sure.

It really isn't bad. Depends on how much its sagging. GPU PCBs are very resilient, and most can bend quite a bit. Thing is, with extreme sag, its not the GPU you have to worry about. The PCI-E slot could snap off with a lot of GPU sag.

[Bleedingyamato]

1 hour ago, Noirgheos said:

It really isn't bad. Depends on how much its sagging. GPU PCBs are very resilient, and most can bend quite a bit. Thing is, with extreme sag, its not the GPU you have to worry about. The PCI-E slot could snap off with a lot of GPU sag.

Interesting.  I didn't know the slot was the thing to worry about more.  Good thing my Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7 MB claims to have some sort of reinforced PCIE x16 slots to guard against that sort of problem happening.  ?

[jjohnthedon1]

17 hours ago, Kryptyx said:

I have some minor sag, not a whole lot you can do without putting in a brace or something. With that said, I don't think mine really justifies needing it. It's all subjective, as long as you're not overly sagging it should be fine. These things get tested.

Ur system is pretty similar to mine  

i have a bit of sag ! 

[jjohnthedon1]

One thing I did in my old system was use fishing line to pull the cards up at the end

its see through so it won't ruin asthetics 

and easy and cheep if ur worried 

[TheGamingBarrel]

12 hours ago, Lays said:

Nope, I have a test bench

Now if only my test bench had GPU Brackets  Could weld the OC Bracket from the SOC Force on it lol

[sof006]

Does sag even cause any issues? I have a reference 980 Ti and its pretty well built and doesn't sag at all but does it even matter?

[Kryptyx]

1 hour ago, sof006 said:

Does sag even cause any issues? I have a reference 980 Ti and its pretty well built and doesn't sag at all but does it even matter?

No, not really. The boards go through a lot of testing. It's only a problem if you move the PC a lot or ship it, you want to remove the video card so it doesn't snap the PCB.