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motherboards these days can have so many expansion slots for adding new

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functionality that most people don't even know what to do with them all at

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least in theory because thanks to Modern

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graphics cards ballooning thermal output almost none of them are available with

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single slot coolers meaning that if you want to run a single graphics card you

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take up two of your expansion slots you want to run two boom you just took up

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four of your expansion slots now the solution to this used to be very simple

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you take your graphics card you rip that cooler off of it and then you go ahead and you put a water block on it so that

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you can actually install something in the slot right next to it without

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compromising the cooling well not if NVIDIA or AMD have anything to say about

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that check this out here's a couple of modern cards you see the problem they

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have connectors in the next slot over so we're going to show you guys how to take

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care of that and uh single slot ay a modern

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GPU

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if you're in one of 20 different countries check out the link in the

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video description to learn more so I'm actually going to start with a A

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pre-water cooled card the purpose of this video is not to be a comprehensive

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guide on how to water cool your graphics card because we've actually done that

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before you can check out that video right around here no this one is just

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intended to address the difficulties

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associated with water cooling a card that has IO that's in the slot next to

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it you know whether you're trying to just increase the number of slots that

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you have access to or whether say for example there's a particular type of

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slot that's being covered that you need well this should help you and then again

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last thing to be clear I'm not necessarily recommending that you do

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this because while we will be taking what I believe will be the appropriate

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precautions to ensure that our card still works at the end of this your

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mileage may vary considerably and this is not the kind of guide that you will

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find anywhere on you know I don't know AMD or NVIDIA's

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website so the first step is to find yourself the appropriate cutting wheel

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so we're just going to be using one of the standard cutting discs and not or

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reinforced cutting discs rather and not the uh nubbing of a one that was on

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there four step number two is to remove

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the rear IO plate from the card this

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will subject the card itself to less

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metal shortage uh all over the place than if I

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were to try and cut this while it was attached there we

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go but before doing that we are going to

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mask off any exposed PCB parts of the

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card as well as we possibly can can to

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avoid any metal splinters or shards um

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causing shorts on the board by just getting lodged into places and bridging

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contacts so I have this handy dandy bag that's exactly the size of a video card

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that I'm going to try and use for that with a water block on it a video card is

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no longer exactly the size of a video card that's okay we'll just take it

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together mask off the

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Bo okay so the last thing to consider before the point of no return which we

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are about to Embark upon is whether or not you need this connector so this is a

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DVI D whereas this is a dvii so that

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actually leaves us with DVI VGA though not at the same time although I think

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there are split I'm not actually sure don't quote me on that one DVI or VGA

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HDMI and DisplayPort on this particular card so as long as we don't need dual

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DVI then we should be pretty much good to go now in theory this should work

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because a disconnected connection is still a disconnected connection whether

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it's here at the connector or whether it's here at the well we sought it off

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there so um I guess without any further stalling

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it's dremeling time let's get our vacuum

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cleaner in position you know it's called a vacuum

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cleaner but you would never use it to clean a vacuum I mean by this logic a

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car wash should use a car to wash something be up to the editor whether

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that gets left in or

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not wow that's

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uh that's a little uh that's yeah that's steel that's a little tougher than I was

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hoping I think we're going to bring out the big guns

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here a crap

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I cut my damn

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vacuum now I didn't cut it much I only cut it a

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little cool oh

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wow so there you have it our DV D

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connector has been cleanly sheared off I

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don't know exactly what difference this will make

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but my sort of Common Sense would

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dictate that you want to take these uh these connector wires here and separate

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them so none of them are contacting each other what's left now is to do our PCI

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back plate now with many cards in the past it was possible to buy these single

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slot back plates that just had the io cutouts on the one side and and nothing

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no ventilation slots on the other side but nowadays because there's IO here no

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one really sells those anymore so we're just going to have to uh we're just

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going to have to make do and just kind of eyeball it here it's really not as

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tight as I'd normally like something like this to be

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held okay in theory a single

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slot bracket I need a file though the are

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really

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sharp ow okay so now all that's left then is

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to reassemble our GTX Titan oh you can see

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it is a really good thing that we masked

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off our video card there you can see those metal shards that were're flying

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around also we're going to be careful now then to keep this video card

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oriented this this way so that those don't fall out towards the car so we're

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going to use a little technique that I call alcohol bath washes away our

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problems all right so now we can put our freshly modded back plate on there ah

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there we go a

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yes oh no I dropped all the

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screws there you go look at that it almost looks natural if you ignore

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this the last thing left now is to make

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sure that our card still

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works boom let's go get some

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water okay Moment of Truth time let's find out if the sucker Works post code

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55 what does that mean oh I don't have time for this right

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now these fans are not plugged in okay let's try

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it again postcode 55 what are you so it

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seems like it may be RAM related so I'm

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going to go ahead and pop one of these sticks out come on video card yeah woo I

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mean there's no real reason this shouldn't have worked I shouldn't be that excited but there you go it works I

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mean oh I guess what I haven't shown yet is installing a card next to it let's

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say we wanted a PCI press SSD oh what the heck it's PCI

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e2x okay I need a 1x card where am I going to get a 1x card okay so let's say

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you needed a TV tuner look I don't have to have a good

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reason for doing these things sometimes it's just because I

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can boom TV tuner installed let's get it

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uh booted up into an operating system now

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cool well I'm kind of stoked on this if

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no one else cares I mean what's the point of these fancy motherboards with

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all these slots if you can only use half of them right so I think that pretty

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