Small chassis can not fit large graphics card how to do?

Many of the budget is limited, or the spirit of small and concise thinking of the user all favor a variety of mini chassis and set up platform. However, when this type of platform users intend to add graphics cards to meet the needs of the late game, but often found that after the video card "plug" does not go into the chassis. At this point, a small wiring, may be able to solve this embarrassment.

　The embarrassment of super long "flagship"

The author is the "Victim" of the mini platform. In order to save the budget, the purchase of the chassis, although inexpensive, and the motherboard also reserved pci-e slots, but did not pay attention to the internal alignment of the impact of the graphics installation.

This time to save the budget, spent 200 yuan on the internet to Amoy a piece of GeForce 8800 Ultra. As the Nvidia flagship of the year, the graphics card uses a very long PCB, the materials are excellent, performance is not inferior to the current midrange video card. Sadly, when I received the video card with great joy, I found that the tail of the oversized video card and the huge turbo-air-cooled system had occupied nearly one-third of the motherboard, resulting in the interface being blocked from being used (Figure 1).

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01-1----The most critical SATA slots have been blocked by the video card

Without replacing the video card, you can only select the IDE connector to mount the hard drive. However, in the SATA-mainstream era also uses the IDE interface that is too outdated. To this end, the author found a good way to solve the problem, that is, the use of extended line.

　It's a big favor to extend the line.

Extended line I believe that everyone is not unfamiliar, because our early hard drive is the line. The author's graphics card is the Pci-e interface, so I bought a pci-e extension cord (Figure 2). This line is designed to the mining machine to install a number of graphics cards will not be crowded together to facilitate the cooling, but now just can solve the problem of insufficient chassis space.

----PCI-E Extension cord price is not very expensive, 19cm about 50 yuan

It is important to note that the extension cord does not mean that the longer the better, because the line without shielding layer is very vulnerable to the surrounding electrical environment interference. We'd better estimate the approximate length before we buy it, and buy a long 1cm~2cm that neither wastes money nor reduces unnecessary electromagnetic interference (Figure 3). In short, the line rather than buy a long do not buy short, otherwise the graphics card will be in a dilemma position.

----Extension cord is connected to the video card

Finally, depending on the space inside the chassis, we can choose whether to secure the video card inside or outside the chassis. The author's internal chassis also has a certain space, can be card in the chassis inside, do not affect the overall beauty. If your mini enclosure space can not accommodate the super long graphics card, with such an extension cord, can solve the position problem and reduce the thermal pressure of the graphics card, not wonderful?