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Hardware / Peripherals / Re: Skylake Build help!
« on: March 28, 2016, 11:46:12 am »
Third is the block/coolant.
Vidcards with after market heat sinks without a backplate tends to sag at the end increasing the pressure on the pci express port. After sometime the slot malfunctions due contact loss in the pins. I had that happen with a asus 6950 and a asus p8p67pro.
Hopefully you should be able to avoid this by buying the gigabyte board and a card with a back plate on it.
Since you are fixed on buying a AIO I am going to stop my explainations on the pros of buying a aircooler
Vidcards with after market heat sinks without a backplate tends to sag at the end increasing the pressure on the pci express port. After sometime the slot malfunctions due contact loss in the pins. I had that happen with a asus 6950 and a asus p8p67pro.
Hopefully you should be able to avoid this by buying the gigabyte board and a card with a back plate on it.
Since you are fixed on buying a AIO I am going to stop my explainations on the pros of buying a aircooler
