Small video cards <3

[tabascosauz]

Sad to hear it, how long did the R7 265 last? I generally change out GPUs at least once every year so hopefully I won't have to go through that. The silence makes it worth it for me.



GTX 1060 (ASUS, Turbo) w/ a Dracula VGA Cooler.

Just over a year before the problems started (5-10 attempts at booting before booting). Crapped out completely soon after. Was so bad in the end that when I took it out and put it on a table, it was noticeably warped and if I had taken out the GPU screws, the PCB wouldn't have sat flat on the table. All thanks to terrible Club3D cooler design with the rigidity of paper, and a bunch of really stubborn ribbon cable / stiff cable PCIe power connectors that had to bended at contortionist angles to fit in the SG05. The weight that must be on your card from that monstrous cooler makes me tremble. Big =! effective.

Needless to say, I don't buy cards from crappy generic AIBs or cards without backplates anymore.

 

[sn2x]

Just over a year before the problems started (5-10 attempts at booting before booting). Crapped out completely soon after. Was so bad in the end that when I took it out and put it on a table, it was noticeably warped and if I had taken out the GPU screws, the PCB wouldn't have sat flat on the table. All thanks to terrible Club3D cooler design with the rigidity of paper, and a bunch of really stubborn ribbon cable / stiff cable PCIe power connectors that had to bended at contortionist angles to fit in the SG05. The weight that must be on your card from that monstrous cooler makes me tremble. Big =! effective.

Needless to say, I don't buy cards from crappy generic AIBs or cards without backplates anymore.

Thanks for pointing it out the bend or I would have left it the way it was... the GPU bend is gone. I accidentally bent the base plate after removing the stock heatsink and tightened all screws; that was causing the PCB to bend, I've corrected that now by unscrewing the leftmost screw(the part that was bending)...

I could probably straighten the left edge of the baseplate but I'll just leave it like this since the card is straightened now, the leftmost side of the baseplate has no active cooling pads(the pads on that side of the GPU are covering two unused VRAM slots).

I don't feel the weight of the cooler is that much, only the heatsink is adding weight to the GPU, the fans/fanmount are not connected to the heatsink, there is some sag but I don't feel it's an issue.

This massive cooler is quite effective though, in some games I sustain an overclock of 2164 Mhz without any drops with temps in the 50s using my cases 7v setting on the fans.

 

[Kanan]

Thanks for pointing it out the bend or I would have left it the way it was... the GPU bend is gone. I accidentally bent the base plate after removing the stock heatsink and tightened all screws; that was causing the PCB to bend, I've corrected that now by unscrewing the leftmost screw(the part that was bending)...

I could probably straighten the left edge of the baseplate but I'll just leave it like this since the card is straightened now, the leftmost side of the baseplate has no active cooling pads(the pads on that side of the GPU are covering two unused VRAM slots).

I don't feel the weight of the cooler is that much, only the heatsink is adding weight to the GPU, the fans/fanmount are not connected to the heatsink, there is some sag but I don't feel it's an issue.

This massive cooler is quite effective though, in some games I sustain an overclock of 2164 Mhz without any drops with temps in the 50s using my cases 7v setting on the fans.

Which gpu model is this?