It’s not screwed in, and you’re going to be hanging a fairly heavy cable out of it. It’ll probably be fine short term, but any vibration or movement of the machine or monitor risks partially dislodging the card.
It also looks like you have removed the bracket and reattached it outside the case, which will mean that the plug on the cable can’t mate properly with the socket, likely leading to intermittent issues.
In short, it might work for testing the machine, but it’ll cause you pain in the long term. Get, or make, a full sized bracket and it’ll be much happier.
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.
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.
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.
It’s not screwed in, and you’re going to be hanging a fairly heavy cable out of it. It’ll probably be fine short term, but any vibration or movement of the machine or monitor risks partially dislodging the card.
It also looks like you have removed the bracket and reattached it outside the case, which will mean that the plug on the cable can’t mate properly with the socket, likely leading to intermittent issues.
In short, it might work for testing the machine, but it’ll cause you pain in the long term. Get, or make, a full sized bracket and it’ll be much happier.
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.
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.
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.