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Question about installing Graphics Card
I installed a reference gtx 970 into my Alienware Aurora R4: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-4gb-gddr5-pci-express-3-0-graphics-card-silver-black/9855169.p?id=1219441201895
And I noticed that only one screw of the two to secure my old card fit on this one. My card doesn't align correctly with the PCI slot, so only one screw fits. This causes a bit of sagging towards the opposite side of the card as the card is long. Any help of how to fit both screws on the card? Is it that the motherboard is not aligned correctly? Thanks in advance.
Cass-Ole
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July 20th, 2015 21:00
aazo55
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July 20th, 2015 23:00
The sagging is hard to see, which is why I only took one picture of the entire card, but hopefully you can see what I mean by how only one screw can fin in, and it fits in the biggest hole.
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July 21st, 2015 00:00
IMO, as long as the card is fully inserted into the PCIe slot, it's fine.
The brace is one-piece so that card is not going anywhere.
I could say more, but since you asked the question, we should leave it at that.
aazo55
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July 21st, 2015 01:00
Do you think that it is a motherboard alignment issue, or a GPU alignment issue, or anything like that? I'm just curious if any other GTX 970 owners have the same problem in their Aurora.
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July 21st, 2015 01:00
Do you think this is a motherboard alignment issue, a GPU alignment issue, or something like that? I'm curious of if other GTX 970 owners have the same problem in their Aurora R4.