My 4090 is so heavy that it was starting to bend downwards because of gravity, and I was concerned the connector would end up snapping. So I started looking around for objects of the appropriate size I could use to stop this from happening. Long story short, my computer now has a Rubik cube lodged between the gpu and the psu.

There is a reason why some GPU vendors supply a support bracket with the GPU. However, it will not protect against damage during transportation.

https://www.techpowerup.com/img/mhK56ZlNWHCIgVEE.jpg

You do not ship computers with massive GPUs installed.

An 11(!) minute video that only shows said part for ~20 seconds in a blurry shot.

Shitfluencers have lost their minds.

Okay, this is a problem we literally solved in the early 1980s.

Back in the days of the original IBM 5150, there was an agreed-upon "full length" card size. The case had a little plastic rail attached to the front panel, so a card that length would fit into it and be braced at both sides.

For a $10k card, they could easily say "Only these specific cases"-- which have an appropriately positioned rail. These days, it might need to be a full steel buttress, but still, a lack of standardization created this problem more than anything else.

I prefer a flat-motherboard case (an old CoolerMaster HAF XB) so my beefy Radeon 6900XT doesn't sag or require something to prop it up.

>If the PCIe connector on a traditional graphics card fails, either the whole PCB has to be replaced or the connector has to be repaired. Both require specialized tools and a qualified technician to do the job.

I'd love to meet the technician who is replacing graphics card PCBs.

This has been true for a long time - I remember removing GPUs before shipment when working in the VFX industry almost 10 years ago. Usually the mobo slot would break and brick the whole machine - good amount of time the GPU actually survived !

We were also getting tons of AMD and Nvidia workstation cards for free (which were far heavier than their gaming counterparts at the time)