No BS Vertical GPU Mounting Guide (Pros/Cons & How To)
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- Опубліковано 24 вер 2024
- So you just bought a brand new Pixel Pusher and you probably want to show it off, right? Vertically mounting your GPU is the best way to display that expensive and good looking piece of hardware but what are the benefits and negatives of doing so compared to just installing it normal? How do you even mount it vertically and what extra hardware is needed? We talk about all this in the video with no filler, just the good stuff.
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Do you prefer the classic method of installing your GPU or do you like the look of vertically mounting?
I never had a PC but I am going to build one, my life's first ever PC. I am going for the RTX 3090 FE and the card got no RGB, still it's a huge show-off. That's why I want to vertically mount it. The cabinet is going to be Antec Torque
Fortunately, the riser cable and mount I am going to buy advertises itself as PCIe 4.0. I hope that comes to be as truth and not gimmick
@@DeathStriker88 how did it go?
@@DeathStriker88 get the evga3090ti they reworked the pcb putting the memory on front. Keeping it cooler.
You won't have to worry about burning it up under normal conditions.
Vertical for me, open side panel when gaming. Keeps the card from sucking in the hot air it just blew out.
I always want my gpu to be vertically mounted, just to see those fans turn 😁
Yes and usually the cooler design is the best looking part on the GPU, gotta show it off
same
also if you end up doing water cooling with a custom loop. You would want the water block for the GPU to be on full display
@@YourPersonalGeekmy gpu has an Waifu on the back but the fans also look good lmao. It’s an Yeston 6800
Liked for truly being no BS; I’m more concerned with optimal airflow over aesthetics, so this answered my question very directly.
I just installed a GPU riser bracket, i love the way it looks amd takes all the stress off the PCIe slot
Informative, concise and no life story, straight to the point. Great video,..subbed!
Straight to the point? The guy talks too much almost to the point it was convoluted.
Nevertheless, still a good video.
The only thing with side mounted GPU set ups, is that you can no longer use your beefy sound cards, more powerful ethernet adapters or any other PCI-E peripherals. You'll have to make sure you buy a strong motherboard with all the bells and whistles included.
Indeed
Its ideal to have front and bottom fans pulling in fresh air and top/back fans pushing out warmed air. Hest rises so use that to your advantage, always mount radiators on the top of case with a push config
Did you compare thermals? I have the meshify C and wondering if vertical mount would be worth it? Seems kind of restricted horizontally mounted too?
It's good. I have Meshiy S2 - vertical mounts with top fan as exhaust keeps M2 drives cool.
@@Alex-Johnson7 I am considering buying a Meshify, currently with a define S2 vision blackout but high cpu temps since mounting my GPU vertically. Do you have an AIO ? If so do you place it as intake or exhaust ? Have a nice day
@@rokal1980 Sorry, I don't have AIO. I just use descent fans. I have 1 fan in bottom to 3 on top for exhaust. Total: 1 on back, 1 bottom, 3 front and 3 on top above CPU
My vorsair 7000d airflow case came with the vertical mount set up. The offset pims for proper spacing of the new PCIe to be at level. Works perfectly. I love my corsair case.
Love that case as well
If you run it vertical with an open side panel you can definitely get lower temps.
I have the lian li 011case and vertical mounted the 3090ti and I run it with an open side panel.
Evga 3090 Ti, MEMc@ 11.7ghz GPUc 2.190ghz voltage at 1095mv
Temps stay in the low 50's air cooled. I have 3 fans on bottom exhausting the heat that the card blows down .
Total of 12 fans in the case
6 on the CPU AIO cooler.
which vertical mount do you use?
@@federicorodriguez9716 cooler master v2. It comes with pcie 3 I switched to a pcie4 riser cable. Anything below the 30 series you won't notice a difference from pcie3 to 4. I have had the evga 3090 ultra, the 3090 black and now I have the 3090ti ultra. The higher the card the more I notice performance drop off with pcie3 risor cable. So I switched to pcie4 and I got those losses back.
your bottom fans should be intaking air and pushing it into the gpu, the fans on the gpu exhaust away from the top of the fans
@@aydynx My thoughts exactly.
Your bottom fans should be sucking in air and exhausting out of the top of case. Heat rises so use that to your advantage, suck in fresh air from the bottom and front, exhaust out the back and top.
Awesome video. Came here from the mic giveaway on ur tictok.
Let's go, thanks for checking it out! Hope you stick around got a lot more builds and PC content coming up
@@YourPersonalGeek definitely will. Just build my first pc and want to get more into the community
another positive is preserving the gpu slot of the mother board. changing gpu often may deteriorate the slot from the motherboard. having this preserves it
I suppose if the value of the mb outweigh the value of the gpu... most people who upgrade their gpu would simply just buy a new mb.
@@DamnitMan88 idk, no point in replacing a good mb unless switching to a newer cpu socket or looking for more features, if you're testing different gpus or swapping them often i wouldnt wanna have to swap mb too
@@dandanthebabyman Only if swapping GPUs or CPUS is a causal occurrence to the person. I don't think that is the case to the majority.
How often do you replace GPUs? 😂 And any decent GPU costs more than a MB.... If you can afford that many GPUs.....
@@TsLeng well lets just add the fact that modern high end gpus now are heavy and without additional support would make them sag and could destroy both gpu and mobo
I just built in the 200, I got the 4090 gamers oc edition and a ryzen 9 7950x3d. Look at the tower 200 and 300 by thermaltake, they made for vertically mounting your gpu with no raisers without being up against glass so no sacrifice on airflow but all the benefits of vertically mounting and it's easier on those cases and it looks better then how that's vertically mounted
The wider version of that fractal case doesn't need that modification. It has vertical card slots as well so no cutting needed.
the regular or xl or ?
@@seeyouspacecowboy14 The XL, 140mm wide
I was wondering why his case didn't have the vertical slots like mine.
I don't want to show off my graphics card, I want to counter any gravity stress that would be on a beefcake of a GPU if I bought it.. particularly the diving board end hanging out into space on a 3 fan card. I see a whole lot of dead 3 fan cards on ebay from what I assume is gravity stress on the PCB. I ahve a Corsair 500D and I'm very confused. DO I need a corsair specifi solution to this case, or will some generic kit be fine. Also, do I want 90 degree or 180 degree PCIe 4.0 cable from your affiliate link. And yoru bracket kit link seems to be unavailable.
just buy a $3 extendable support leg for the GC and nothing will bend.
The Vertical GPU should be a thing for every GPU with AIR OPEN as the exhaust from heatsinks would be more efficient, because when is horizontal the heatsinks dont disipate properly the air stucks on left-right sides of the case, while mounting vertically each heatsinks from gpu will point up directly to the top of the case exhaust fans
But also important to mention if you put the GPU vertical on a open air gpu, just make you sure to use a CPU AIO, as you don't want to have a vertical cpu fan pulling the air because it will interfere with the gpu air.
I just wish there was a way to run additional expansion cards when you run the GPU vertically.
One thing everyone is leaving out is airflow yeah y’all mention airflow but Y’all don’t explain the orientation of the fans on the gpu are they exhaust fans or intake?(I have yet to throughly test this myself) from what I’ve observed from my (horizontal) 7800xt is the hot air gets pushed up ⬆️ and there are some ports exhaust ports at the top, so the gpu fans are pulling air in through the fans (bottom) and out the ports (top) .. that’s where my problem/question starts .. if this is true for other gpus, mounting vertically while the fans do look awesome on display which is what I wanted, what I’m seeing is all that hot air from the ports when exhausting all the hot air will directly blow onto my motherboard, yes optimal airflow is a must I guess I rather have the hot air up and out than outright smacking my mobo just my 2 cents still need to confirm a few things tho !
Your conclusion seems correct from my research as well
is vertical mounting can damaged motherboard? because of the gpu direct of heat to mobo?
So from what I'm getting is the only positive for vertical mounting is looks. Cons is worse cooling, more money spent and more work needed. Doesn't make sense to me lol
@@heartsfear9216for that you can also get a support thingy for the card, they go for around 20-30USD
This was great! Thanks!
No problem!
you forgot about PCIE-Gen.3 and PCIE-Gen.4 compatibilities and performance issues
Great content!
It doesn’t feel so overwhelming now. I’m building my first pc got all the major parts picked out (brands, Gpu, cpu, MB ram) including the tower and I really wanted to go with msi hardware and a Corsair tower. Well turns out they have vertical mounting brackets which scared me but this video put me at ease so thanks
The evga cards were the sexiest cards ever.
I am thinking about a vertical mount as my GPU does not have a backplate and you only can see the PCI board
same with my old one
It looks great, but does it really help temps to redirect your GPU fans away from the fresh air coming in at the bottom of your PC to point them at the glass panel which has less fresh air? With our GPU fans facing down away from the hot air at the top of our PC we are essentially pulling in fresh air from the bottom of the PC, but when we vertically mount our GPUs the fans are facing the side panel, essentially recycling the already warm air inside the PC. Hot air rises, which is why they designed the fans to be pointed down... drawling from the cooler air at the bottom of the case
Looks like the phanteks mount is for the 3090. Will it work for the RX 7900 XTX? If not, what would?
I have Fractal Meshify 2 XL case,a PCIe 4.0 motherboard,rtx 3080 gpu.What brand of vertical 4.0 bracket and raiser cable would
you recomend for my components?
Maybe from Cablemod ot Lian-li,i don't know if Fractal have 4.0 version on the market yet.
So, I've got a Meshify 2 case, a PCIe 4.0 motherboard, GPU card, and solid state hard drive. The Meshify bracket is PCIe 3.0. Will that work without anything slowing down?
Won’t notice any FPS difference really but you won’t get any signal if you don’t go into bios first and turn the top pcie slot for your GPU from 4.0 to 3.0!
Get a 4.0 riser cable so you don't limit the speed of the card
@@Lewdacris916 I did. Got that old cable out of there. It actually had problems once I upgraded the GPU to a faster one.
The issue I have with vertical brackets is that you cannot get at any motherboard plugs without taking the graphics card out. Also, you lose every pci slot on the board.
Heat comes out the back of my GPU I feel like it would heat up part of the motherboard and maybe damage it or something.
So much for mounting a sound card if you have one?
Very nice. Thank you.
Why are there no shots of back of the case after installation, so we can see any potential airflow issues of vertical mounting, especially in a case that wasn't made for that?
Lovely video, do you happen to have any tips or experience regarding angled cases such as the "Mars Gaming MCBW"?
I was considering making a build in it with a vertical mount but there doesn't seem to be much out there about it or similar cases.
Does it affect performance? Mounting the gpu vertically.
Does the GPU blow its heat onto the motherboard when vertically mounted? I don't want my m2 drives getting hot.
Best question bro I want to know the same.
Note this will probably cause higher temps
Yeah I covered that it definitelywill if you're case doesn't have enough room
Can we install capture cards vertically?
Newb question. It seems like the riser cable pretty much makes the rest of the PCI-e/ PCI slots unusable. Is that correct?
You are definitely correct one major downside to it
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Appreciate it!
Good video! I recently built a new system containing 4070 in MSI Velox 100R. Because the position of the enclosed vertical mount is quite far from the door, may I expect a lower heat level than usually being said? Will a 15cm PCIe cable be sufficient, or should I choose a 20cm one safely?
Pcie risers wont cause performance drop in terms of latency?
With the size of what cards are coming to, the 4080 being that absolute max of what id upgrade to (if price goes down) will that card fit in a nzxt h150i case?
Vertical mounting is definitely da way to go to avoid ur gpu from cracking
Are you saying with the right size case that the vertical gpu heat is equal, less or insignificant more than horizontal gpu
Do those cushions come with the kit? I've got a riser cable but no way to support the small space between the bottom of the riser cable and the top of the psu shroud. Currently I'm using a small rechargeable battery for an Xbox controller to support it. I'd rather have something like the cushions you show in this video though.
I want to know as well
@seeyouspacecowboy14 I bought it and it does come with those pads.
@@LinkinForcerso is doing some digging and then I saw that fractal makes a fractal flex b-20 vertical bracket, I wonder why he didn't use that in the video
Is there something more preferable about this bracket over the one they naturally make?
@@seeyouspacecowboy14 I'm not sure. I only got it because of the pads. I don't use the bracket at all.
I have a phanteks p400s. I need to vertical mount my graphics card since it's making my x570 chipset overheat by blocking airflow. But i have a pcie usb expansion. If i vertical mount, do i lose the ability to use my other pcie slots?
Will one of those brackets work on a Lian Li o11 Dynamic mini with a rx6800?
I'm getting a rx 6700 I can not find a full coverage block for the 6700 just for the xts, so I'm going to get 4 m.2 water blocks glue them to the mem/ mofest, and get a universal block. And a vertical mount it so I can see the beauty, everything else on my PC is water cooled also it looks sick.
I was wondering, does the pcie cable have latency? Also what happens if we have like 2 more cards on the last slots? Thank you
Very small I lost like 5 fps max but thr bad thing is if you expandion cards in your other pcie slots you won't be able to use the riser. So probably best for you not to go that route
@@YourPersonalGeek Ok, then sadly I cant use it since I have a thunderbolt and 10gb network card :( also I see that there are different band widths for the cable like 32gb, 64 and 128gb. I wonder if this can help or maybe our bandwith has a limit and could be useless, those pcie 5 128gb bandwith are expensive :( Thank you very much for your response, appreciate it :)
What about performance? How does it perform one way versus the other
it only performs as good as you connect it, so don't slack and make sure you do a splendid job
Since hot air rises, this seems wonky. The heat leaves the gpu unevenly.
Can I use this mount in a mid-tower case?
Is there a way to vertical mount and still be able to use the other PCIe slots?
Not that I know of know which is a down side if you have devices you want to use in those slots
i think your vertical GPU much more logical for airflow, i gonna try one racket like that for my 3080ti vga. Other YT just put the vertical GPU close to side window, how the heck hot air coming out. Weird
If you vertical mount your GPU does this mean you can't then install any other horizontal PCI cards like a sound card?
You are correct
My PC case doesn't have a shroud, would that be bad for my PSU? My case is Fractal Focus RGB2.
lol. I can't vertically mount mine even though it has the option to. It would be right on the glass and I would have to remove the back fan and put it somewhere else.
Yeah it's not worth it if it's that close to the glass would look neat but the temps would be awful
Where you get the cushion from??
I'm wondering...can I use my 3060ti vertical mount for the 4070 Super? I watched the two unboxing video's and they' re both 2 slot cards...so basicly that should be good right? Anybody in the know? I don't really know what kind of mount I own!
Yeah it should work just fine!
Which Is The best Micro ATX case For this?
From which tool you cut the cabinet metal case ?
I wanted to vertical mount my GPU but the bracket doesn’t fit and I can’t find a 4 slot bracket
What gpu you using like 3090ti?
Okay, so now this will block my nice SoundBlaster card. Is there PCIe 4x / 1x extender cables?
I know It does suck, you don't want to vertically mount if you have any other expansion cards installed
I like the vertical look but it looks like it will delete my mb Pcie 1x slots , Wi-Fi 6e etc any suggestions?
What are the names of the AIOs used in this video? I was wondering about the one with an LCD screen, 'cause I haven't seen it before. The Enermax, I have.
It's an MSI one think the K240
@@YourPersonalGeek Aha! Thanks!
Nzxt also has a kraken with a LCD screen.
@@User_1795 I believe everyone has heard of that one.
Great video hey quick question , is riser cables a problem on performance? 4.0 pci cables ? Or same performance as if you plug it directly to mother board ?
same
late reply but for anyone else wondering if your mobo is pci3 and you get a pci 4 riser it will run at 3.0 speeds bc your mobo don’t support 4 it really doesn’t make a diff i js got pci4 for when i upgrade my mobo
Ok so no fan on back off the case, i guess theres no need to
I want to vertically mount my GPU so that I can use both all of my remaining slots, does doing this allow for that? Or is there still not enough room?
Well if you vertically mount you won't be able to use any of the other PCIe slots, which is one downside to it.
So instead of risking loss of performance, what can I do to solve the issue of my 4080 extra power cable poking out of the case, preventing me from closing the glass lid?
Zip tie it to the connected one could be my guess if I’m understanding your issue correctly
@@YourPersonalGeek I don't think that would be the case (pun not intended), the 4080 I have has a sleeved 12+6 pcie cable, that doesn't bend and I can't properly close the glass lid on my case because it would press on the cable. Apparently there is a 90 degrees cable you can buy and use instead of the one provided with the gpu, so that you can connect the gpu to the psu. I'm still debating on whether I should go for a vertical mount or a 90 degrees cable. My case is a Deepcool Matrexx 70, and the gpu is an ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 4080
hi I have a question about I have to use 1 pcie cover for my wifi card, then can I use the vertical gpu mounting without removing the wifi card?
No you can't I was so mad I forgot to really touch on that in the video but that is the one downside of it
I would like too mount a vertical gpu in my meshify c but if I do that i can't plug my wifi card anymore how can I do to have internet knowing that I don't want a usb key for my wifi given its instability..
RJ45 cable
Mine is open case, reason to do it because of the dust problem
What's that cable called I can't find it
PCIE vertical gpu mount
Do you need a specific sized case based on gpu or are they universal?
Mid tower and bigger cases should fit all gpu
If they fit horizontally they should 99.9% also fit vertically
Looking for a high-end refurb machines Servers/storage’s/hard disk/processor for a animation company in India .
Could you please guide me on this
Can you have a vertical GPU and a capture card for streaming I’m asking if you can only have one or the other keep in mind this is coming from someone who has never built a computer before I would really appreciate the answer to this
Really depends on your mobo, if u have a atx case, in some cases you can fit both. But if u have a matx and a large gpu, u won’t be able to
You are very wrong about temperatures and spacing - it is all about choosing the correct case and fan placement.
what bracket is used in the corsair 4000d?
Everyone trying to show off and I'm just trying to get a vga light to go away lol
does the case or gpu comes with pcie riser cable?
It does not you have to purchase that yourself
So you burn every other pcie slot by doing this. Neat…
If you have a case with built-in vertical mounts you can use both
POV: your rich and have a water cooled GPU so you don't lose any performance
3:33 msi velox tutorial begins
Why would I make special effort to do anything cosmetic inside my case unless I was selling them, and wanted a nice presentation? In my own case I could care less about stupid sparkly flashly lights. All I care about is air flow and a semi neat setup with the wires and such so I can easily access what I need to access when need be. I'll explain why I want to vertical mount now so that if it works I can reverse the pump bypass setup and go back to normal. Btw, guys, don't ever buy an EVGA AIO. EVGA claims it's rare, but that's a fuckin lie. Rare means it barely even happens, not that it only happens to 20% of people using them... or whatever the number is. Educated guess.
I want to mount my video card vertically because EVGA's hybrid coolers are extremely prone to loud buzzing when the AIO pump gets air bubbles trapped in it while it's on a horizonal mount. If this hasn't happened to you, I don't care, so please don't reply about how you're special in that regard. Mine didn't start buzzing until I moved it while switching cases. I have the pump currently bypassed to a system fan slot since having it plugged into the card itself keeps the pump running 100% at all times, and the sound is like that of a really powerful vibrating dildo -- the likes of wish only a Kardashian would buy after breaking up with another black boyfriend.
So, down to it... since doing the shaking and rocking thing on the pump and/or radiator does nothing and is a waste of time to even try, I saw a suggestion from a guy on the EVGA forums who made it clear he's far from an expert, but ironically his suggestion made more sense than anything the self-proclaimed experts there were sometimes throwing out: mount the thing vertically. He said he did so and after a little while the bubbles trapped in his pump must've finally worked their way out and up into the radiator where they belong. Nobody bothered responding to him, though I should have made an account there for the sole purpose of being the only one who recognized that that actually sounds like something worth trying.
For me I don't want to show it off, but they are so big i don't want strain on Mobo.
Yeah that’s a fair point we’re getting to that point now with how large and heavy the GPUs are
I have this same Msi Tower but sadly the RTX 4080 SUPRIM X does not fit vertically with corsair vengeance rgb memory :(
dang I feel like its a pretty decent sized tower too with a good amount of room for customization
@@YourPersonalGeek yeah but the 4080 is just too large, and the vengeance are too big haha
@@imattcore9581 True the 4080 is an absolute beef cake
anybody got a recommended vertical mount for the RTX 3080 VISION 2.0 OC And for the lan li LI-011 Dynamic EVO Case? And do i need to do modification if i mount it on the Li-011 case as i want to get a new pc and vertical will look SO nice with it in my all white and Light RGB blue build.
He looks like jonny sins😅😅
You guys love to say that
Can you apply Vertical mount on a MATX form factor?
Probably wouldn’t recommend unless the case is specifically designed
@@YourPersonalGeek I guess so,I have tried it, Well,I tried putting it like how you would put a vertical mount and there is no more space
Guys i am thinking about building my first pc. What about the lian li O11 dynamic mini ? Does it make sense to put the 3080 vertical in this case in terms of air flow? And a 280mm radiator on the side or on the top for a better airflow in general ?
Iam in the mini with a tuf 3080.
My config:
Itx board: 360 Cpu aio as intake and bottom intake and sides as exhaust
I will be trying to go vertical in the next days or in two werks and try to answer your question then again.
Or 240/280 intake side, bottom intake rest exhaust.
@@rocketracer111 how did it go?
@@Trixx343 totally forgot to answer.
Vertical with bottom/top intake and sides exhaust did not change temp or noise. :)
240 side as intake was worse tho.
The 240 as exhaust: i blocked in the back the path towards the psu to have warm air only exhaustet in the front. This was wort it. The Warm air was exhausted through the side was kinda warming my hands haha
@rocketracer111 you want to always have AIO radiators exhausting out of the top of case, heat rises
What length riser cable would you recommend for the MSI Velox?
I’m gonna put a gt 710 in this
"Pixel pusher"... nice name 😂
Vertically
I'd love to try it but I doubt my D15 cooler will leave enough space for a huge 4080
Either way gpu is still poorly designed. All the hot air pushing to the cpu and the board. Only solution to isolate is still water cooling
what about for matx cases with only 4 pcie slots, or example Montech Air 100? Can you recommend any specific riser?
I wouldn’t do it in smaller cases to be honest