[Help] Vertical mounting GPU without loosing access to PCIe slots

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Is it possible to achieve this? Currently I have Lancool II mesh & using the cooler master vertical mount kit but it blocks access to all PCIe slots. Is there any specific case/mount kit/riser which allows this?

P.S: Prefer vanilla solutions, try not to cut/dremel the case.
 
If your card is pcie 4.0 make sure you get a compatible riser cable. They might be expensive though.
 
Did you check Lian Li's O11 vertical GPU mount? It has multiple slots and might work, if it's compatible with the case.
 
roofrider said:
Did you check Lian Li's O11 vertical GPU mount? It has multiple slots and might work, if it's compatible with the case.
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Yes, I think it's not possible to access the pcie slots in lancool ii after vertical mounting since the mount kit will block atleast 6 slots.

Maybe I should get a fractal case which comes with seperate removable vertical slots(like meshify 2 dark) and connect the riser cable to the bottom pcie x16 slot that way it won't block other pcie slots. Performance hit will also be negligible.
 
j3rwin said:
Yes, I think it's not possible to access the pcie slots in lancool ii after vertical mounting since the mount kit will block atleast 6 slots.
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Just a thought. If the kit has multiple slots, can you not also mount the WiFi card etc vertically?

j3rwin said:
Maybe I should get a fractal case which comes with seperate removable vertical slots(like meshify 2 dark) and connect the riser cable to the bottom pcie x16 slot that way it won't block other pcie slots. Performance hit will also be negligible.
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I've seen some budget cases (Corsair 4000d off the top of my head, there could be more) that come with vertical slots. But these are usually close to the side panel and might marginally increase GPU temps? Also if you can find a looong riser cable you might still be able to use the top PCIe slot and not block the others.
 
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Just a thought. If the kit has multiple slots, can you not also mount the WiFi card etc vertically?
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Most kits come only with two vertical slots, few come with 3 but the issue here would be running the second pcie cable over the first. Also I need few more slots(wifi, sfp+, multi ethernet and a sata expansion card)

roofrider said:
I've seen some budget cases (Corsair 4000d off the top of my head, there could be more) that come with vertical slots. But these are usually close to the side panel and might marginally increase GPU temps? Also if you can find a looong riser cable you might still be able to use the top PCIe slot and not block the others.
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Yeah, they do increase the temps a bit but I'm not too concerned about that. Perf loss while using bottom slot is in single digit%, I think I can live with that plus 20cm+ cables are expensive and mostly OOS.
 
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