Broken PCI-e slot

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Tom_201

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Hey guys, so this summer I built a PC when I went to America on holiday (prices are much cheaper in the US). I then made the biggest rookie mistake anyone could ever make...I checked my newly built PC into the place without taking out the video card.

During the journey the massicve weight of the 1080 stripped the PCI-e slot clean off. Now I have plastic slot (detached from the MB), and all of the pins, though bent over, intact on the MB (Asus z170a). my question is whether or not I would be able to repair this pci-e given that all the pins are still there and I still have the slot. If were to bend all of the pins then glue it back into place would the board be repaired, or is it worth taking it to the store to get fixed? Let me know what you suggest,

I really don't wanna buy a new MB because this one took ages to set up with the liquid CPU cooling.
 
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The store most likely won't take back a board that has suffered obvious physical abuse like a PCIe slot getting ripped off. Gluing the connector back together may work but given the forces involved between PCIe card and the slot, the connector might not hold together too well.
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With a little trick on placing them with glue, they maybe work, but you should take off any parts on your motherboard off first.
Also, there's still a x16 slot below the first one. So you can still place the 1080 on the second or the third slot PCIe x16 slots, that runs @x16 when only a single slot is used.
 
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The store most likely won't take back a board that has suffered obvious physical abuse like a PCIe slot getting ripped off. Gluing the connector back together may work but given the forces involved between PCIe card and the slot, the connector might not hold together too well.
 
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As has been suggested, just use another PCIe x16 slot. I have plenty of cheap/free motherboards where the primary x16 doesn't work due to socket damage or whatever. Just make sure none of the exposed pins are touching anything.

ASUS charges US$154 to replace a PCIe slot under their non-warranty service, which is hilarious because it's $1 less than a new board. If you really want to replace it locally, you can have someone transplant the entire PCIe slot from a dead board to yours--those pins are awfully close together and it would be too easy to have it short when a GPU is inserted.
 
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