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Advice on mounting GPU to a flat panel.

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So I'm in the midst of doing a flat wall mounted pc "case" and I've figured everything out for the most part, except how I'm going to secure the GPU to the panel. I'm using a Strix card, and running a riser cable from motherboard to card. Now, there only appears to be one hole on the PCB I could use to bolt the thing down, which won't work very well. The card will need to be mounted in such a way that the display outs are facing downwards, so are there any good options for perhaps using some kind of bracket setup to support the card and prevent it from falling off?

I'm the first to admit I'm not very good at this kind of thing, hence I'm trying to challenge myself to get good at it. Learned a lot so far,but I don't really want to rely solely on my (lack of) expertise to create a solution that won't end up with my graphics card lying on the ground in pieces.

Any ideas or suggestions are appreciated.
 
I think the newer Strix cards all have one

Then maybe OP should consider plastic mirror clips.
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Then maybe OP should consider plastic mirror clips.
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I think the space between either the card and the backplate, or the card+backplate and the cooler might be an issue with this

I was thinking something along the lines of using the screw holes that you mount the backplate to the cooler/PCB and getting longer screws that will go through whatever you are using to mount the parts on and back into those holes (must get length right ofc)
 
I think the space between either the card and the backplate, or the card+backplate and the cooler might be an issue with this

I was thinking something along the lines of using the screw holes that you mount the backplate to the cooler/PCB and getting longer screws that will go through whatever you are using to mount the parts on and back into those holes (must get length right ofc)

I've thought of this, but I'm really not keen on stripping the card down and voiding warranty. The screws for the backplate can only be removed once the cooler has been taken off.
 
Then maybe OP should consider plastic mirror clips.


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Thanks for the suggestion. I've actually had another dilemma pop up in the form of my riser cable not being quite as long as expected (100% my fault for thinking the length stated was only the length of the ribbon cable, not the entire device) so am having to figure out something to make that work, but I should still be able to apply this idea to the build in some form.
 
I've thought of this, but I'm really not keen on stripping the card down and voiding warranty. The screws for the backplate can only be removed once the cooler has been taken off.

definitely won't do that.... I was under the impression that it would have screws coming from it's side going into the cooler

well then how about going extremely 'basic'....

get something like angle iron as long as the IO of the GPU and have the GPU 'resting' on that, then just put something like a cable tie at the top/rear of the card through the mounting board to hold it against it?

obviously make holes into the angle where you would be putting cables through
 

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