so my customer care Department asked me to do a quick video because we've been
having some problems with 5800 and 5900
series video cards in shipping and shipping them with systems we've
actually witnessed a couple of situations where because the video card
has such a heavy cooler on it it can actually snap the PCI Express slot like
split it in two when the weight of the video card is is is put on it that way
so with some customers who are buying these video cards in cases that you know
we might not be able to pack as well we've we asking customers if they would
be comfortable if we Shi the system with no video card but otherwise completely
assembled and then ship the video card separately so I'm doing like just a
quick guide on how to install a video card if you've never done it before so
our team will prep everything for you so all you really have to do is make sure
that it's lined up with the correct slots here in the back and the correct
slot so it'll be a PCI Express 16x slot
which will look something like that and then you can take your 5800 series video
card just position it in exactly the right place so just line it up so that
the fingers at the bottom of the card are not under but rather directly into
the PCI Express slot push down firmly
okay then what you'll need to do is if your case uses thumb screws then you'll
use the thumb screws to secure the two holes up at the top of the io plate so
one and then if you do not have thumb screws with your case then you'll need
to use a screwdriver to secure both of those screws this is what holds it in
place and so you can see that I mean okay with the only things holding a
video card in place being these two screws and this plastic clip here it's
not exactly the most robust solution so you can see there's quite a bit of room
to move there that's why they're proposing this and then the last thing
that you'll need to make sure that you do is plug in the power connector or
connectors which are either located at the back of the video card just like
that uh or on the top edge of the video card so you can see there's one clip on
the one side and I'm positioning it so that that clip plugs right into the
video card until it goes all the way in on both of them thank you for checking
out my quick video card installation guide for your reference that was a
powercolor 5830 that I installed