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Is your graphics card SAGGING?

Rob Beschizza
Aug 14, 2025
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Graphics cards have gotten larger than ever, with Nvidia's RTX 4090 and RTX 5090 models weighing more than 2 kilograms and sometimes sporting enormous aftermarket cooling fans. The humble PCI slots on motherboards were't designed to hold them sideways, but that's often how they are. In the age of overstuffed, poorly-designe…

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