$10k RTX Pro reportedly snaps under its own weight during transit
tomshardware.comOkay, this is a problem we literally solved in the early 1980s.
Back in the days of the original IBM 5150, there was an agreed-upon "full length" card size. The case had a little plastic rail attached to the front panel, so a card that length would fit into it and be braced at both sides.
For a $10k card, they could easily say "Only these specific cases"-- which have an appropriately positioned rail. These days, it might need to be a full steel buttress, but still, a lack of standardization created this problem more than anything else.
I prefer a flat-motherboard case (an old CoolerMaster HAF XB) so my beefy Radeon 6900XT doesn't sag or require something to prop it up.
My 4090 is so heavy that it was starting to bend downwards because of gravity, and I was concerned the connector would end up snapping. So I started looking around for objects of the appropriate size I could use to stop this from happening. Long story short, my computer now has a Rubik cube lodged between the gpu and the psu.
Mine came with an magnetic anti-sag bar and it was badly needed
Mine also came with a bar but my motherboard didn’t have the appropriate holes for it.
An 11(!) minute video that only shows said part for ~20 seconds in a blurry shot.
Shitfluencers have lost their minds.
>If the PCIe connector on a traditional graphics card fails, either the whole PCB has to be replaced or the connector has to be repaired. Both require specialized tools and a qualified technician to do the job.
I'd love to meet the technician who is replacing graphics card PCBs.
This has been true for a long time - I remember removing GPUs before shipment when working in the VFX industry almost 10 years ago. Usually the mobo slot would break and brick the whole machine - good amount of time the GPU actually survived !
We were also getting tons of AMD and Nvidia workstation cards for free (which were far heavier than their gaming counterparts at the time)
There is a reason why some GPU vendors supply a support bracket with the GPU. However, it will not protect against damage during transportation.
You do not ship computers with massive GPUs installed.