Recently, PC1's, a well-known Japanese PC repair shop, shared a typical hardware damage case on social media. A high-end graphics card without a bracket crushed the motherboard's PCIe slot. The host in question is equipped with a Gigabyte RTX 4090 GAMING graphics card.The specifications of this graphics card are extremely exaggerated, with a thickness of 3.8 slots and a weight of 2kg. The user did not use any graphics card support accessories during assembly, causing the motherboard PCIe slot to bear a load far exceeding the design for a long time, and eventually the rear half of the slot broke.
Fortunately, the PCB board of the graphics card itself was not damaged, and the user only needs to replace the motherboard to repair the fault.
It is worth noting that the original factory of this Gigabyte RTX 4090 GAMING graphics card actually comes with a special bracket, butThe user did not pay attention to this accessory during assembly, nor did he install third-party support tools by himself, which ultimately resulted in avoidable losses.
In fact,As GPU power consumption continues to rise, the size and weight of mid- to high-end independent graphics cards have exploded in recent years. PC1's said that they receive a large number of similar repair cases on a daily basis, and the root cause of the problem is almost all that the graphics card is overweight and lacks effective support.
In fact, all graphics cards with a three-fan design must be assembled with supporting accessories. Just use the bracket to gently hold the end of the graphics card to prevent it from sagging for a long time, which can effectively disperse the load-bearing burden of the motherboard.
Don't take chances. After all, compared to graphics cards and motherboards that cost tens of thousands of dollars, the cost of a bracket of tens of dollars is almost negligible. Don't lose the big for the small.