This is perfectly fine, right?

  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    8 days ago

    You’re right the cable doesn’t insert properly. :( I’m Hoping to use this machine as a headless server with a graphics card for jellyfin transcodes, and thought that it would be better to be partially secured like this than free floating, especially when I turn the computer back upright.

    But if low profile to full-size adapter brackets are standardized, that seems like a better solution. It was just too funny to not take this picture.

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      8 days ago

      You’ll need a bracket that’s designed for the card I think, but if you have a drill and there’s a blanking plate you can canibalise you could probably make something good enough for a headless server.

      It is a fun picture, I enjoy pictures of mildly horrifying kludges that do the job.

    • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 days ago

      They aren’t standardised as different cards have different connectors, locations of connectors, etc. If you aren’t even running monitors out of it just run it without a bracket. The PCIe slot itself will secure it, especially because it’s such a small card compared to a honking double-wide gaming GPU.