Damaged my PCI Express slot 1

[HipOldGuy]

Hello everyone!

 

Long story short:

 

I pulled too hard when the clip was still engaged and ripped out the socket in my PC Express 1 x16 slot while pulling my GTX 980 Founder Edition out. I have an 17-5820 with 28 Lanes/Mobo is a MSI X99S SLI Plus

 

I have moved the GTX 980 to the next applicable PCI Express 3  (also x16) slot and the GTX 980 is working fine but at x8 1.1

I understand why it is running at x8 on slot 3, but was wondering if this is affecting performance of my card etc. It seems fine so far but does anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks!
/Hip

 

 

[GSTARR]

1) Damn

2) x8 won't affect the card's performance in a noticeable way. Linus has videos on it, unless I'm wrong  

[W-L]

2 minutes ago, HipOldGuy said:

Hello everyone!

Long story short:

I pulled too hard when the clip was still engaged and ripped out the socket in my PC Express 1 x16 slot while pulling my GTX 980 Founder Edition out. I have an 17-5820 with 28 Lanes/Mobo is a MSI X99S SLI Plus

I have moved the GTX 980 to the next applicable PCI Express 3  (also x16) slot and the GTX 980 is working fine but at x8 1.1
I understand why it is running at x8 on slot 3, but was wondering if this is affecting performance of my card etc. It seems fine so far but does anyone have any thoughts?

 

Your board will be physically down a slot so you will need to use the other slots, while it is an x8 slot that would still have more than enough bandwidth for everything without dampening anything. As for the pins left on that slot though I would take a flush cutter and cut them off close to the PCB since you don't want to short them together especially the power pins.

[kelvinhall05]

4 minutes ago, HipOldGuy said:

Hello everyone!

 

Long story short:

 

I pulled too hard when the clip was still engaged and ripped out the socket in my PC Express 1 x16 slot while pulling my GTX 980 Founder Edition out. I have an 17-5820 with 28 Lanes/Mobo is a MSI X99S SLI Plus

 

I have moved the GTX 980 to the next applicable PCI Express 3  (also x16) slot and the GTX 980 is working fine but at x8 1.1

I understand why it is running at x8 on slot 3, but was wondering if this is affecting performance of my card etc. It seems fine so far but does anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks!
/Hip

 

 

 

the x8 is slowing down your performance. also (not to be rude) but it is a lesson learned to make sure your slot lock is off! 

[FoxHound]

You need to be very careful that non of the pins touch. I would recommend you cutting as meany of the finger as you can off if you plan on not replacing the board. If some of those pins touch each other in the correct way you can kill your CPU very easily. If you feel comfortable with wire cutters just cut them as short as you can without damaging surrounding components.

[ARikozuM]

You can try to move the pins back so that the PCIe slot fits back in.

I would suggest seeing if your local computer store would be able to repair it.

[2FA]

I will never understand how people manage to do this.

[TheRandomness]

8 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

the x8 is slowing down your performance. also (not to be rude) but it is a lesson learned to make sure your slot lock is off! 

x8 doesn't show any performance impact at all tbh

[meenmeen1103]

I would at least use a knife to carefully move any pins that are touching (if any) if you intend to keep using it.

[HipOldGuy]

Thank you all for your comments! I spoke to MSI and they sent me a RMA Auth to look at it, I may have to pay a little to get it replaced but nothing close to the $300 or so for a new board.