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vertical GPU brackets what's their deal so in the past year we've noticed many cases that come included with the dual vertical PCI slots beside your normal ones or some sort of space to accommodate a vertical PCI bracket for your GPU and it looks great when it's mounted facing you but are there any benefits and temperatures and exactly what are the benefits and drawbacks with vertical PCI brackets let's talk about that right after this the new master liquid all-in-one coolers are available in 120 and 240 millimeter stylish radiator sizes with air Balance fans included for best air flow and RGB sync on the pump and the fans that are controlled via this hub or through your motherboard check out the ML 120 ln 240 L down below okay so this is a pretty relevant topic because more and more cases now can support vertical mount for the GPU and you gotta pay extra premium to have all the appropriate mounting accessories that generally involves a PCI extension cable and something to mount it to the frame securely for my test setup I'm using the latest EVGA case the DG 77 check out that review if you haven't already and I've removed the front glass panel because that is a choking hazard for the fans I am testing two style of graphics cards this dual fan GTX 1084 the win with all the shiny lights on the shroud so you can observe and customize how it looks facing you and then he found this edition gtx 1060 which is still a pretty shroud but a blower style cooler so we can observe the temperature differences in vertical and standard positions I also have two coolers for testing the corsair h 100 IV two mounted at the front because 240 millimeter all in ones in this spot are quite popular but because they blow warm air into the case because of that radiator I've also got a pure rock tower from be quiet it's a small enough one to not interfere with the vertical GPU mount and I would say it's about the size of an average CPU tower and I'm also replacing all the fans with silent wings 3 so once for exhaust and 2 for intake with nothing up top so my total fans and the system remains the same when I swap the coolers so Cosmetics is the obvious advantage when you go in vertical you're not just looking at the top of the card but a full shroud design and four cards and have no back place this is a huge visual advantage it helps to fill in that empty space of a case and you have you know your graphics card basically the center of attention now you have to keep in mind the power cables on how they're routed and also what is the card blocking on this case it's far away from other PCI slots so you can put stuff in there without interfering with the vertical one but the extension cable is on the top PCI slot essentially blocking access to everything else of course you can reposition the extension cable to a lower PCI slot in order to install anything else and also this mount has to happen after you route all your front of your cables and anything below that motherboard otherwise the access is pretty limited and the mount is usually pretty close to the side panel sparking questions for airflow so let's get into that now my room temperatures remain constant with less than one degree fluctuation I'd removed EVGA SDG tuner so the cards are operating within their factory parameters and they're not being overclocked and each load state lasted for 20 minutes in Doom so we can heat up the interior of a case and I also recorded the noise levels of each configuration and starting off with the 1084 the win we had 82 degrees Celsius with tiny bit of fluctuations and both configurations and constant just over 2,000 rpm on a fan curve but check this out core clocks in the vertical mount are around five percent lower so I'm thinking the proximity to the glass is impacting its cooling potential and therefore it's a slightly throttling itself for the blur style GTX 1060 temperatures are slightly better in the vertical orientation with only slightly lower rpm on the fan but the clocks are exactly the same leveling off at eighteen thirty five megahertz switching over for the air cooler and the GTX 980 stays at 82 degrees Celsius with the same fan speed in either orientation and again we're running into lower frequency on the core in the vertical mount by around three percent but the lack of warm air entering the case from the radiator gives us that slight boost in clock speeds for the blower style gtx 1060 we're seeing five degrees celsius cooler temperature in horizontal position most likely due to better airflow delivery from that front fan that results in lower fan speed on the card but surprisingly over time remain the same at eighteen thirty five megahertz with this unusual dip by the end in the vertical orientation and aside from seeing worse temperatures we're also seeing higher noise in vertical orientation because the card and its fans are facing the window and therefore the noise isn't as absorbed by the interior alright so what have we learned so number one vertical orientation is great if you want to showcase your graphics card and the shroud and customize the color of the LEDs if you are into that but also it fills in that space that is otherwise void so they're all visual advantages but from a performance standpoint you're running into a slightly harder GPU because of that proximity to the side panel it is also slightly louder and it creates a bit with inconvenience if you need to access anything on the bottom side of the motherboard because it's just there's so much stuff now in front of there and also in terms of the performance on the core clock front we are seeing about a five percent reduction in core clocks which will impact gaming performance not in a good way but that of course can be counteracted with an overclock that will diminish any of those differences in whatever orientation and so I hope this clears up some questions regarding vertical GPU mounts and if you are thinking of going that route let me know in the comments below I'm at the be tree thanks so much for watching we'll see you next video