PowerColor Says Graphics Cards Are Too Heavy
Never break your precious graphics cards again.
With high-end graphics cards putting on weight, PowerColor says that cases and motherboards simply don't provide enough support for these hardware behemoths. A particularly vulnerable area is the rear of the card, away from the relative strength of the case backplate.
The company claims that a PCIe slot can only take so much, before it snaps and interrupts your 16AA Crysis 2 experience. The graphics card vendor will release what it calls the PowerJack, a retractable brace that can be used to prop up ultra-heavy graphics cards.
Weighing only 30 grams, the PowerJack supports loads of up to a kilo-and-a-half. It can extend from its 61.25mm height up to 150mm. PowerColor will start bundling the PowerJack with its heavier cards (no specific yet) this July 15, and sell the accessory separately a few "weeks" after for $9.99.

Wow!!! These guys at PowerColor are pretty smart. Who knew video cards were getting heavy.
That won't work on PC cases with a PSU at the bottom.
I have 205mm from the bottom of the case to my video card. Maybe I can use a car jack.
but i personally would need to see evidence for the claim that current cards are heavy enough to do such damage but nevertheless it is reasonable
Wow!!! These guys at PowerColor are pretty smart. Who knew video cards were getting heavy.
That won't work on PC cases with a PSU at the bottom.
I have 205mm from the bottom of the case to my video card. Maybe I can use a car jack.
chips are getting smaller, but they can pack a lot more on the cards so it's also denser
this is a waste of money, i'd just tie the ends of the card to the top of the case, so if the card breaks the pci-e slot, it breaks the case too!
the gpu's get faster and smaller but also now getting more power hungry and hotter
I'm waiting for everything to be tri slot graphics cards lol.
This is also why you should always secure your graphics cards with screws.
Also didn't the 8800 ultra come with like a hdd cage brace to hold it up.
Perhaps PowerColor shouldn't use the cheapest parts they can find to make their GPU's? They are known as being the "cheapest" GPU maker by every definition of "cheap".
Thats how I built my entertainment center, just have the mobo laying in the sideways position with everything setting on the top with the psu suspended above along with the HDDs.
I thought this was an actual jack.
I wondered how they were going to deal with all the people who would over jack and break the board at the pcie connector
NO that is just Intel's chips lol.
MAKE THE DAMN THINGS SMALLER AGAIN!
remember when computers used to get smaller?
I don't know, its just I don't really consider it technical progression if it gets bigger...
it should be twice as good, and smaller. THATS progression!
guess it just shows they are running out of ideas.