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so I heard yeah a lot of you complained in my previous vertical graphics card case mod video that there was a much simpler solution out there that I seemingly overlooked that company Coolermaster creates this bracket here this is a vertical graphics card bracket and it's actually very well made it's super simple and design but it does exactly what it's intended to do allow you to mount your graphics card vertically and with their included riser cable which I'll get to in a second you can have a fully functioning graphics card that looks something like this so we're gonna talk about the installation process my personal thoughts on on this bracket here what I had to do to get this to fit in my case the cutting that I had to do yes there is a bit of that involved but look I mean come on that's pretty sweet anyone who knows computers are gonna ask you what on earth you're using to get your graphics card to sit like that and I think it looks pretty darn good so let's get started the be quiet dark Bass Pro 900 white edition is the definition of both function and form wireless charging case inversion and insane water cooling headroom make it one of a kind or one of two thousand because that's all be quiet offering click the link in this video's description for more details so the tools you are going to need first up Philips head screwdriver recommend a magnetic one you're gonna need this for really any PC building maintenance whatever you can think of anyway so you should have one of these already on hand now you're going to need also a pair of either wire cutters or if you want to get fancy with it a dremel to drill through the PCIe slot frames at the back of your case now a big heads up here if you have a case that does not have seven slots you need to pay close attention to what I'm about to say next this is a seven slot bracket which means that it will fit in any mid-size Tower with seven PCI slots perfectly now if you have a full-sized Tower with maybe eight slots or nine slots or whatever you're gonna have extra slots at the bottom of your case or at the top depending on how you want to arrange this and make more sense to have this bracket at the at the top though because you're gonna be able to screw in your graphics card from above so you're gonna have extra slots below if you have a full sized Tower and then if you have something smaller than a midsize Tower so maybe a micro ATX or an ITX chassis this bracket will not fit period now on to the cutting process I'm going to assume that you have a mid-sized tower which means that you are going to be taking up all seven of those PCI slots with this bracket here you won't have any extra slot laying around the cutting is going to involve these little frames here for each year PCI slots you're gonna want to cut through every single one of these from left to right just get rid of all of them some people just cut the space where the new bracket where the new card is going to sit but I just recommend cutting all the way through it's not going to change the structural integrity of your case and it'll make things look a bit more clean back here again this is where a dremel would really come in handy if you want to get fancy with it and keep things nice and clean back here using a pair of wire cutters you can result in some splitting maybe some paint chipping off again you're not gonna look at your case from the back very much so it's not going to matter to most people but if you want a clean finish then use a dremel instead now once all six of those frames are removed the next thing I recommend doing is installing your graphics card in the bracket outside of the case it's gonna make things a bit easier coming from the top down especially if you have your CPU cooler already installed it gonna be a bit difficult also this will give you time to secure your riser cable if you're using the one that's included with cooler masters bracket things are pretty straightforward you can secure it directly to the frame although any riser cable is gonna be pretty sturdy I use Thermaltake riser cables because I see literally no performance degradation with these they're pretty expensive I've linked them in the description if you're interested these are just the ones that I personally use because I see no framerate dip at all with the riser cable versus plugging the card directly into the motherboard in some cases like in my case three times Kula master sent these brackets without any riser cables at all so I had to email them and ask them what was up with that like they expected me to have riser cables of laying around which I guess to be fair is what I assumed you would have in my previous video so just play it safe make sure that this comes with one if you buy one otherwise go with something like the thermal take riser cable like I said it's a bit more expensive but it works really well so regardless of which cable you opt for have all of that pre-installed outside of the case once the card is installed in the bracket and the PCI riser cable is installed into the card from beneath go ahead and plug in the riser cable directly into that uppermost 16-lane slot on your motherboard and then slide the bracket into place as you would any regular graphics card there are two places to secure thumb screws on the right side of the bracket when looking at the case from behind so you can keep the bracket nice and sturdy and then of course you can secure the card itself via the two screws now turned upright it's really that simple just a bit of cutting that's it I was even able to still keep and use the fantex and a rear slot cover thing that slides back and forth to people fantex case you know what I'm talking about I can still use that to keep things nice and clean back there and the card is functioning properly not the fans not turning because I forgot to connect the fan when I put that cooler back on the PCB yeah I got to go fix that but everything else working really well and I've actually used the Thermaltake riser cable with other cards in the past and that's how I know how good that thing is and tested that with multiple riser cables actually because I was really impressed with how good it was and I think from now on what I'm going to do when I want to mount a vertical graphics card is use this bracket from Coolermaster it's it's really simple like you would think that other people would just catch on to this and can do it and offer it but Coolermaster has a nailed it here and as long as you get the riser cable included or have one on hand then you're going to be able to use your graphics card the same way you'd be able to if it was just plugged directly into the motherboard without any performance degradation at all look I don't really know why it's such a big deal to have your card turn this way I think that the bottom of the card this side here just was hot yeah I should probably turn the fan on I think that it just looks much more clean when it's sitting upright because you can see the fans it looks a little bit weird here with the blower style card but if you had a car with maybe two or three fans on it and you had it turned this way it would look pretty sweet so if you like this design maybe like the setup like what coolermaster has to offer let me know by giving this video a thumbs up I appreciate it I'm sure they will as well click the subscribe button for more content like this stay tuned for some tests with the i-580 600k very interesting stuff coming here soon to the studio this is science studio thanks for modding with us