motherboards these days can have so many expansion slots for adding new
functionality that most people don't even know what to do with them all at
least in theory because thanks to Modern
graphics cards ballooning thermal output almost none of them are available with
single slot coolers meaning that if you want to run a single graphics card you
take up two of your expansion slots you want to run two boom you just took up
four of your expansion slots now the solution to this used to be very simple
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
you can actually install something in the slot right next to it without
compromising the cooling well not if NVIDIA or AMD have anything to say about
that check this out here's a couple of modern cards you see the problem they
have connectors in the next slot over so we're going to show you guys how to take
care of that and uh single slot ay a modern
GPU
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video description to learn more so I'm actually going to start with a A
pre-water cooled card the purpose of this video is not to be a comprehensive
guide on how to water cool your graphics card because we've actually done that
before you can check out that video right around here no this one is just
intended to address the difficulties
associated with water cooling a card that has IO that's in the slot next to
it you know whether you're trying to just increase the number of slots that
you have access to or whether say for example there's a particular type of
slot that's being covered that you need well this should help you and then again
last thing to be clear I'm not necessarily recommending that you do
this because while we will be taking what I believe will be the appropriate
precautions to ensure that our card still works at the end of this your
mileage may vary considerably and this is not the kind of guide that you will
find anywhere on you know I don't know AMD or NVIDIA's
website so the first step is to find yourself the appropriate cutting wheel
so we're just going to be using one of the standard cutting discs and not or
reinforced cutting discs rather and not the uh nubbing of a one that was on
there four step number two is to remove
the rear IO plate from the card this
will subject the card itself to less
metal shortage uh all over the place than if I
were to try and cut this while it was attached there we
go but before doing that we are going to
mask off any exposed PCB parts of the
card as well as we possibly can can to
avoid any metal splinters or shards um
causing shorts on the board by just getting lodged into places and bridging
contacts so I have this handy dandy bag that's exactly the size of a video card
that I'm going to try and use for that with a water block on it a video card is
no longer exactly the size of a video card that's okay we'll just take it
together mask off the
Bo okay so the last thing to consider before the point of no return which we
are about to Embark upon is whether or not you need this connector so this is a
DVI D whereas this is a dvii so that
actually leaves us with DVI VGA though not at the same time although I think
there are split I'm not actually sure don't quote me on that one DVI or VGA
HDMI and DisplayPort on this particular card so as long as we don't need dual
DVI then we should be pretty much good to go now in theory this should work
because a disconnected connection is still a disconnected connection whether
it's here at the connector or whether it's here at the well we sought it off
there so um I guess without any further stalling
it's dremeling time let's get our vacuum
cleaner in position you know it's called a vacuum
cleaner but you would never use it to clean a vacuum I mean by this logic a
car wash should use a car to wash something be up to the editor whether
that gets left in or
not wow that's
uh that's a little uh that's yeah that's steel that's a little tougher than I was
hoping I think we're going to bring out the big guns
here a crap
I cut my damn
vacuum now I didn't cut it much I only cut it a
little cool oh
wow so there you have it our DV D
connector has been cleanly sheared off I
don't know exactly what difference this will make
but my sort of Common Sense would
dictate that you want to take these uh these connector wires here and separate
them so none of them are contacting each other what's left now is to do our PCI
back plate now with many cards in the past it was possible to buy these single
slot back plates that just had the io cutouts on the one side and and nothing
no ventilation slots on the other side but nowadays because there's IO here no
one really sells those anymore so we're just going to have to uh we're just
going to have to make do and just kind of eyeball it here it's really not as
tight as I'd normally like something like this to be
held okay in theory a single
slot bracket I need a file though the are
really
sharp ow okay so now all that's left then is
to reassemble our GTX Titan oh you can see
it is a really good thing that we masked
off our video card there you can see those metal shards that were're flying
around also we're going to be careful now then to keep this video card
oriented this this way so that those don't fall out towards the car so we're
going to use a little technique that I call alcohol bath washes away our
problems all right so now we can put our freshly modded back plate on there ah
there we go a
yes oh no I dropped all the
screws there you go look at that it almost looks natural if you ignore
this the last thing left now is to make
sure that our card still
works boom let's go get some
water okay Moment of Truth time let's find out if the sucker Works post code
55 what does that mean oh I don't have time for this right
now these fans are not plugged in okay let's try
it again postcode 55 what are you so it
seems like it may be RAM related so I'm
going to go ahead and pop one of these sticks out come on video card yeah woo I
mean there's no real reason this shouldn't have worked I shouldn't be that excited but there you go it works I
mean oh I guess what I haven't shown yet is installing a card next to it let's
say we wanted a PCI press SSD oh what the heck it's PCI
e2x okay I need a 1x card where am I going to get a 1x card okay so let's say
you needed a TV tuner look I don't have to have a good
reason for doing these things sometimes it's just because I
can boom TV tuner installed let's get it
uh booted up into an operating system now
cool well I'm kind of stoked on this if
no one else cares I mean what's the point of these fancy motherboards with
all these slots if you can only use half of them right so I think that pretty
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