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Securing the video card on a de-cased motherboard?
TheShaner:
This falls into the category of "Doh! I totally didnt anticipate this when I planned to de-case my computer"!
So I have a computer, de-cased,
... an older picture, but it serves the purpose. I hadnt thought about it before, but everything on it is securely fastened but the video card. Any ideas on how to anchor it down so it doesnt wiggle. I thought to use tie straps, but that seems a little cheesy.
Chappie:
Zip tie both ends (hopefully you have a hole on the inside corner and use the metal bracket on the outside corner.
boardjunkie:
You can screw it to the side of the cabinet...carefully. You wanna only put enough tension on the tab of the card to hold it in place. Don't "torque it down". I had to do this with both the sound and video cards.
Nephasth:
Hindsight is 20/20. When I was considering decasing my computer, I thought about this before hand and used the mobo tray and I/O panel so I could secure the video card and other PCI cards. This doesn't help your situation any, but it might help out someone else...
BadMouth:
I never have secured it. :lol
I've only had little s-video cables that weigh nothing plugged into them though.
Trying to do higher quality work on the current build;
I plan to pick up a strip of metal stock from the hardware section and bend it into a bracket shaped like this.
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(bottom screwed into cab, nut and bolt on the top securing it to the video card's mounting tab)
Similar shaped brackets are used to brace the I/O boards on my megatouch machines.
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