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Thankyou!No drastic modding or tools required, just a few moments of time. I used the stock PCIe 4.0 riser cable. Out of the box I found the cable was way too close to the bottom 92x14mm fan and it would make a funny noise on the fan blades and made the fan more difficult to install in an already tight spot.I took the riser out completely in order to start the bend a little bit closer to the PCIe slot PCB. I used a plastic spudger tool and wrapped the end of the cable around it to bend the cable a bit higher up, try not to put too much pressure onto the end of the cable where it connects to the PCB as you don't want to snap it off. Slow and steady. The factory bend then got straightened out.Once it was bent right, I decided to run it up behind the GPU to maintain the new bend better and to stop the cable from ever sagging down into the fan. This would also make it much easier to remove or replace the riser later without having to take out the motherboard which is far more work than removing the GPU alone. Maybe you can slide the riser out from behind the mobo without taking it out but it wouldn't be as easy to reinstall and may interfere with boards that have rear mounted M.2 drives or backplates etc.Also, I removed the plastic insulator sheet from the middle of the chassis. I didn't like how it looked and now the riser cable sort of backs the GPU up off the motherboard tray enough to not scratch anything. I wouldn't do this if your GPU does not have a full backplate though - you do not want to short out your PCB on any metal so leave the plastic sheet in if you don't have a GPU backplate.
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No drastic modding or tools required, just a few moments of time. I used the stock PCIe 4.0 riser cable. Out of the box I found the cable was way too close to the bottom 92x14mm fan and it would make a funny noise on the fan blades and made the fan more difficult to install in an already tight spot.
I took the riser out completely in order to start the bend a little bit closer to the PCIe slot PCB. I used a plastic spudger tool and wrapped the end of the cable around it to bend the cable a bit higher up, try not to put too much pressure onto the end of the cable where it connects to the PCB as you don't want to snap it off. Slow and steady. The factory bend then got straightened out.
Once it was bent right, I decided to run it up behind the GPU to maintain the new bend better and to stop the cable from ever sagging down into the fan. This would also make it much easier to remove or replace the riser later without having to take out the motherboard which is far more work than removing the GPU alone. Maybe you can slide the riser out from behind the mobo without taking it out but it wouldn't be as easy to reinstall and may interfere with boards that have rear mounted M.2 drives or backplates etc.
Also, I removed the plastic insulator sheet from the middle of the chassis. I didn't like how it looked and now the riser cable sort of backs the GPU up off the motherboard tray enough to not scratch anything. I wouldn't do this if your GPU does not have a full backplate though - you do not want to short out your PCB on any metal so leave the plastic sheet in if you don't have a GPU backplate.
