DIY vertical GPU mount

[barney2x4]

 I have a Be Quiet! Silent Base 600 case, which has no vertical mount feature for my VGA (Gigabyte 1050Ti OC Windoforce). The aesthetic component was the most important one for me, but there is another issue. The motherboard (ASUS H170 D3 Plus) has 2 PCI-E 3.0 slots - one x16 at the top and a x8 at the bottom. It's almost impossible to fit the VGA on the top (faster) one and even if I could - it would make the GPU and CPU too close to each other and would restrict the airflow. So I thought about buying a Cooler Master vertical VGA mount, but it kind of sux that you have to cut up the case. So I thought that it would be harder to dissassemble the whole thing just to cut away several pieces of metal...it wasn't, hah, this thing took 3 months to make and I changed the idea several times. But I wanted to see what a DIY mount can do.
Btw, the performance boost (by using the x16 instead of the x8) wasn't significant - about 3% (measured with Unigine and Cinebench) but then again I have nothing on the other slot and if that changes I might get a bottleneck. I don't know, the important thing is it was fun to make and looks way better.
DIY vertical GPU mount (VGA stand)
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Please share your DIY vertical GPU build, I am interested to see what other people have come up with. 

[iRileyx]

Using the top slot would have been fine, wouldn't have made much(if any) difference to CPU or GPU temps.

A 1050ti doesn't fully saturate an 8x slot either, so that's why there's a "margin of error" difference between the x8 and x16 slot performance.

 

Looks pretty cool though  

[barney2x4]

1 hour ago, RKRiley said:

Using the top slot would have been fine, wouldn't have made much(if any) difference to CPU or GPU temps.

A 1050ti doesn't fully saturate an 8x slot either, so that's why there's a "margin of error" difference between the x8 and x16 slot performance.

 

Looks pretty cool though  

I suppose so. I was probably looking for a justification for myself, haha.