 Motherboards these days can have so many expansion slots for adding new functionality that most people Don't even know what to do with them all at least in theory Because thanks to modern graphics cards ballooning thermal output almost none of them are available with Single slot coolers meaning that if you want to run a single graphics card you take up two of your expansion slots you want to Run to boom you just hook up four of your expansion slots now the solution to this used to be very simple you take your Graphics card you rip that cooler off of it And then you go ahead and you put a water block on it So that you can actually install something in the slot right next to it without compromising the cooling well Not if Nvidia or AMD have anything to say about that check this out Here's a couple of modern cards you see the problem they have connectors in the next slot over So we're going to show you guys how to take care of that and single slotify a modern GPU Tunnel bearers the easy to use VPN service that lets you browse the web as if you're in one of 20 different countries Check out the link in the video description to learn more So I'm actually going to start with a pre water cooled card the purpose of this video is not To be a comprehensive guide on how to water cool your graphics card because we've actually done that before you can check out that video Right around here. No this one is just intended to address the difficulties Associated with water cooling a card that has IO that's in the slot next to it You know whether you're trying to just increase the number of slots that you have access to or whether say for example There's a particular type of slot that's being covered that you need Well this should help you and then again last thing to be clear I'm not necessarily recommending that you do this because while we will be taking what I believe will be the appropriate Precautions to ensure that our card still works at the end of this Your mileage may vary considerably and this is not the kind of guide that you will find anywhere on you know I don't know AMD or Nvidia's website So The first step is to find yourself the appropriate cutting wheel, so we're just going to be using one of the standard cutting discs and not Our reinforced cutting discs rather and not the nubbin of a one that was on there before Step number two is to remove the rear IO plate from the card This will subject the card itself to it less metal shardage All over the place Then if I were to try and cut this while it was attached there we go But before doing that we are going to mask off any exposed PCB parts of the card as well as we Possibly can to avoid any metal splinters or shards Causing shorts on the board by just getting lodged into places and bridging contacts So I have this handy dandy bag that's exactly the size of a video card that I'm going to try and use for that With a water block on it a video card is no longer exactly the size of a video card That's okay Mask off the board Okay, so the last thing to consider before the point of no return which we are about to embark upon is Whether or not you need this connector, so this is a DVI-D Whereas this is a DVI-I so that actually leaves us with DVI VGA though not at the same time Although I think they are split okay I'm not actually sure don't quote me on that one DVI or VGA HDMI and display port on this particular card so as long as we don't need dual DVI Then we should be pretty much good to go now in theory this should work Because a disconnected connection is still a disconnected connection whether it's here at the connector or whether it's here at the Well, we sawed it off there, so I Guess without any further stalling it's Dremel in time Let's get our vacuum cleaner in position You know it's called a vacuum cleaner, but you would never use it to clean a vacuum I mean by this logic a car wash should use a car to wash something We'll be up to the editor whether that gets left in or not That's a little that's yeah, that's steel. That's a little tougher than I was hoping I think we're gonna bring out the big guns here I cut my damn vacuum No, I didn't cut it much only cut it a little Oh, wow So there you have it our DVI D connector has been Cleanly sheared off. I don't know exactly what difference this will make but my sort of Common sense would dictate that you want to take these These connector wires here and separate them so none of them are contacting each other what's left now is To do our PCI backplate now with many cards in the past it was possible to buy These single slot backplates that just had the IO cutouts on the one side and and nothing no ventilation slots on the other side But nowadays because there's IO here. No one really sells those anymore, so we're just going to have to we're just gonna have to make do I'm just kind of eyeball it here. It's really not as tight as I'd normally like something like this to be held Okay in theory a single slot bracket I need a file though. These are really sharp. Oh Okay, so now all that's left then is to reassemble our GTX Titan oh you can see it is a really good thing that we masked off Our video card there you can see those metal shards that were flying around Also, we're going to be careful now then to keep this video card oriented this way so that those don't fall out Towards the card, so I'm going to use a little technique that I call alcohol bath Wash away our problems All right, so now we can put our freshly modded backplate on there There we go. Oh yes Oh, no, I dropped all these screws I dropped all these screws There you go look at that it almost looks natural if you ignore this The last thing left now is to make sure that our card still works Boom Water Okay moment of truth time find out if the sucker works postcode 55 what does that mean oh? I don't have time for this right now these fans Are not plugged in Okay, let's try it again Postcode 55 what are you so it seems like it may be ram related so? I'm going to go ahead and pop one of these sticks out come on video card. Yeah, I Mean there's no real reason this shouldn't have worked. I shouldn't be that excited, but there you go it works I mean oh, I guess what I haven't shown yet is installing a card next to it Let's say we wanted a PCI Express SSD. Oh What the heck it's PCIe 2x? Okay, I need a 1x card. Where am I going to get a 1x card? Okay, so let's say you needed a TV tuner Look I don't have to have a good reason for doing these things sometimes. It's just because I can Boom TV tuner installed let's get it booted up into an operating system now cool Well, I'm kind of stoked on this No one else cares. I mean what's the point of these fancy motherboards with all these slots if you can only use half of them Right, so I think that pretty much wraps it up then guys. 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