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what's up guys Jase $0.02 here and you know there's something that I think we all deal with as the graphics cards keep getting bigger and more powerful and stronger and that being the problem of GPU erectile-dysfunction basically they're sagging all over the place and I've seen lots of different people try to come up with different ways of dealing with the CP or the GPU droop by having little posts here I've even seen people use fishing line tied to the top but today I'm gonna show you a method that I kind of came up with don't know if anyone else has done it if so good for you but I haven't personally seen this and I used it on my last couple builds on how to fix GPU sag regardless of how big or heavy your GPU is for free free being the key word in this save money while simplifying your gift shopping this year with mass drop get high quality products at amazing prices like the ex EMU Purple Heart headphones featuring handcrafted solid wood enclosures providing a warm non fatiguing sound signature easy to drive design making them perfect for cell phones and portable mp3 players without requiring an amp all while weighing less than a half a pound making the EMU Purple Hearts an ideal choice for travel sign up for mass drop is always free so to see what's dropping this holiday season head to mass drop via the link below so I've got two GPS right here both of them are fairly heavy and that's we're gonna be using as our subjects today we've got the asus Poseidon which has a built in air cooler and water block so of course you've got the weight of that and then the ever gigantic ZOTAC Arctic storm which is basically a water-cooled amp card again with a full cover water block on there adding quite a bit of weight but what you're gonna see right here will apply to pretty much any graphics card big or small and just about any product mass produced case and I looked at a few cases here to make sure that what I'm about to do would work it does appear that it would and so your mileage may vary but any mass-produced case will probably have the same issue now the first understand GPU sag you've got to see it you've got to figure out why it's sagging now back plates are things that companies have come up with for both its aesthetics and also to give a little bit of rigidity because a lot of GPU sag folks have pretty much come to the conclusion is because of the weight of the card and the bowing and flexing of the PCB causing sort of a flex downward so the back plates are supposed to help with that but all that happens now is get the whole card that sags down do you see all this movement right here the problem is if you get in here neck - you can see this movement is directly on the socket as well as the pins and we don't want that actually how about is this one sagging oh yeah there's definitely sag in that one not as bad as others but you can see it's definitely lower right here the top screw hole here takes a lot of the sag stress as you can see as I move it up and down you can see the bracket moving now what I would usually do is drop the screw so one of the things I would do is I would keep this screw kind of loose and I would take the end of the card right here and push it up as high as I can sometimes you it feels uncomfortable to you like bending the card push it up real tight and then tighten down that screw as much as I can sometimes it'll hold but in this case you can see it goes right back down now I got me thinking look back here you see this part of the graphics card right there that's basically this do you see these little tabs that push in this is where it actually goes and slots in to the PCI Express slot now you see how these sort of taper they taper in a little bit which means we have some play like this up and down so when this corner comes down this corner comes up kind of like a cantilever so if you watch right now when I play with the Flex ladies you can see that corner right there is moving up and down so this is actually where you fix your sag every one kind of focuses here on the end of the graphics card but this is not the problem back here is and this is kind of the problem with mass-produced cases everyone just sort of comes up with these slots you know the slots where the graphics card will thread in there in fact you can kind of see right here what I'm talking about so here's a PCI Express slot so you can see where they just sort of slot into there if you move around to the back year case you can see the little metal tabs sticking through now watch what happens when I mess with the card you see all that wiggle what we want to do is we want to push those down the problem is these little tabs these little narrow tabs right here are narrower than the slot so that's what's actually what this is what supports the card this does not the screws not this part right here this is what supports the whole weight of the card so this is all I do it's just this simple and the reason why it's free it's because you all have these screws that came with your cases and it's simple enough so I take an m3 screw and all I do is believe it or not I just thread it in to the hole there's so many windows in this video but I just thread it into the hole right here I see there's a hole it's actually not a hole it's just a slot the thing is the m3 threading right here is perfect to just sort of thread itself right into that gap now it's gonna spread the metal a little bit but trust me this is worth it so what I'll do is I'll take the end of the card push it up so you can see I'm making a little more space and then just get it started just like that and tighten her down it is literally that simple you won't see it from the other side the screw is creating a wedge just go until it kind of snaps cuz all I did was like kind of pop the metal back now we have a fully supported GPU with no more sag you can see it's a lot more rigid but if you look at it now you can see there is very little sag compared to before and in fact if you want to just be you know if you want to do your due diligence you can do it on both sides so let's go and try it now with the waterblock graphics card so you got to remove this screw though every time you go take the graphics card out just for the sake of dropping screws cuz that's what I really like to do now this is actually quite the test too because this case has a very thin steel metal it's very flimsy I mean you can kind of see watch this I mean you can see how much this whole thing is flexing right here and when this metal is supposed to be supporting the whole graphics card it's definitely a challenge so let's see what happens here and putting the water cooled card but you can certainly see back there right now make it to get in there tight you can actually see just how much movement there is back there and you can see how when I lift up on the right corner that corner goes down you see that because this is our this is our cantilever point right here that's where the action is so we go up here it goes down there which is why we wedge that screw in their back - how much are we saggy right now let's see actually not too bad but you can see we could certainly get that up a little bit higher a little bit more supported but these screws these are typically just toss I mean usually they'll give you more screws and you need with the cases spare screws that's why this is free once we thread this guy in there look at that no more movement whatsoever and there's our graphics card so we're gonna come across a case where those slots aren't actually the problem so we got right here is the act amp or the zotac amp Xtreme it's a very long card you can see we have a lot of play right here you can see there's a little bit moving in the back like I showed you but the problem is if you turn around look at the back of this case this is a cooler master case right here it's one of the maker 5 cases but you can see it's actually manufactured really well where there's not much movement back here and the slots are actually small enough to where I couldn't get a screw in there without drilling a hole anyway so that's telling me this isn't our problem so upon further inspection you can see the problems actually wait this card is manufactured this one's got a lot of sag the issue here is if you look right here if I can we turn off the light if you look right here you can see look at all this sag I mean this card's fully mounted right here but what's happening here is the card has no support with the cooler to that bracket so it's just sort of floating right here so if I was to take something like say just to show you for demonstrational purposes if I wedge my screwdriver up in there oh that our sag is gone so that's actually more of a card manufacturing problem where they just didn't give enough support on the bottom side of the cart so if you look right here on that on this card you can see once again it's kind of the same issue see all this flex right here this is where the SAG is coming from so has nothing to do with the mounting mechanism so what I would to do what I would do in this situation is I would find something to sort of wedge up in there that isn't too aesthetically unpleasing to give our card a little bit of support this I don't think is going to work that wasn't enough but let's see if we can come up with something so what I want to do is I want to support kind of right here in the middle of the card because if I put my screwdriver back in there you can see if I wedge it sort of right there that takes care of most of the sack so I found this little thing that's a little 3m wire clip retainer thing I don't even know where I got it it was in my toolbox but I would go with something nonmetallic we don't want to be shoving metal parts up inside of our GPU see if I this helps if it does the nice part is this is a it's got its own adhesive on it so we could actually adhesive that in place but that was not enough so we need more you can see I turned that just how much flex there is down there because that you can see that that's where the problem is if look at all of that flex is because of the way they attached the cooler with no support right here so I just stuck these two things together seeing if that gives me enough because I don't want this to be too permanent but I want it to work that helping yeah that's something there so that actually worked it's not too ugly now we've got a level card hook level to you it's pretty little to me but to prove it let's knock it out and see what happens oh yeah you see it sag the second I popped it out so this is where you just have to get kind of creative right to come up with solutions but these are the two major reasons that you would find a GPU sagging case manufacturers to come up with their own brackets and stuff to support the end of the card sometimes it wouldn't be necessary though if the card was manufactured in a way where wouldn't sag those are the two methods I kind of use when it comes to dealing with GPU sag if you've got a cool method make sure you put it down in the description below an awfully pink I'm standing in front of our our nice cool stage lights but anyway I'm gonna go guys also to if you've been missing any sort of the notifications click the bell below this video YouTube is added again if you guys don't want to miss any videos click that otherwise get to it when you get to it I'm gonna go thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one