Omg no please help... Pci-e 970

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boymatmat

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I've upgraded to a 970 and it finally arrived today.... Guess what a noce surprise i had when i saw that The gaming g1 pci-e slot doesnt fit into my p67 pro3 se asrock mobo(pci 2.0)
Problem is pci-e slot of mobo is shorter than The gpu... About half a centimer/less.
Funny thing no one in The world seemed to have this problem.
Any help?
I wanted this to use this rig until skylake... ;(
 
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PCIe slots are a standard. All 16x slots are exactly the same size. They have to fit together. This has never been a problem for anyone else. I highly doubt you are the first person on the planet to have a PCIe video card that will not fit into a PCIe slot.
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That motherboard has:

- 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (PCIE2 @ x16 mode; PCIE4 @ x4 mode)
- 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots

The long slot closest to the CPU is where you want to plug your GTX 970 into. It does and will fit.

All versions of PCIe cards and slots are backwards compatible. Which means that the PCIe 2.0 slot will work with the PCIe 3.0 video card. The card will simply step down to 2.0 performance levels, which is only a few percent slower than what you would have gotten with a motherboard that had PCIe 3.0 support.
 
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boymatmat

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Here you go
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You can see my old vga fit perfectly in there
Halp :(
 
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Well, I'm off to bed now so can't help you tonight. But for reference, a PCI-e x16 has 82 pins on each side (11 + 71). If this is the size of your new card, all I can suggest is Google however many pins your motherboard slot has and see what type of slot it is.
 
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PCIe slots are a standard. All 16x slots are exactly the same size. They have to fit together. This has never been a problem for anyone else. I highly doubt you are the first person on the planet to have a PCIe video card that will not fit into a PCIe slot.
 
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We all have our moments.

At a company I worked for years ago, there was a DC tech who killed the entire company network one night. He was performing an upgrade on a redundant pair of Cisco core routers, which together cost about 1.5 million dollars at the time. He forgot to remove the bright orange dust cover from the backplane connectors on the modules he was installing. When they didn't seat smoothly, he forced them into place and broke the backplanes in both routers, and toasted the supervisor modules in both. (The SUP module is the "brain" of the router, about the same as the motherboard and processor.)

Cue the highest-ups in an absolute uproar on how both the primary and secondary networks were down, and the company was dead in the water. Even with insanely expensive ASAP shipping, it took a couple days to get the issue fixed.

You at least had the presence of mind to stop when it didn't fit. ;-)
 
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pete_101

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Yet looking at the photos I kind of believed him (even though I didn't think it was possible). Looking at the measurements, I would swear the connector on the card is 1cm longer than the connection slot.....obviously it isn't :)

 
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Well, there is one thing that I have learned over the years. Once a standard has been in effect for awhile, things just fit. And the PCIe standard has not changed the slot sizes since PCIe 1.0, which was introduced in 2003. And we are at 3.0 now. Work on PCIe 4.0 started in 2011. The final specs should be published in 2017.
 
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