Can this mount actually HELP GPU temps?
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- Do vertical mounts make a difference in temperature for GPUs? Let's find out! The adjustable vertical mount used in todays video can be found at - amzn.to/4c3x0Al
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using a white case and black verticle mount shows us exactly what goes where. white on white or black on black wouldn't have the contrast to make it clear how things fit. Mabye not the finished product, but for teachng and example, that was the best choice.
Yea, works out well for a demo
Indeed! Ya beat me to saying this. XD Guys like Jay, when they're NOT doing pure aesthetic builds, really should realize that highly contrasting colors for parts/case really does stand out and makes things much easier to see for the viewers.
A happy accident here it seems, but hopefully Jay sees these comments and makes such simple adjustments in future.
That’s actually a really good point. I don’t know how many times I’ve bought something and realise it’s incompatible because of some tab or mounting point hidden due to marketing photos and/or poor instructions.
Just commenting to say that "Jay finds weird/interesting accesory online and tries it" is one of my favourite kind of videos on this channel. Keep them comming!
Used this in my wife's pc build. Honestly, worked pretty well. Only "Surprise" was the need for some right angle display ports to fit through the pci slots of the case. Jay dodged that bullet using a case that doesn't have metal "posts" to reinforce the pci slots area.
Thanks for mentioning this. I am using an old Corsair Sniper case. It's cross bars are riveted in, so with some work I could still make it work, but it is not worth the hassle for me.
Currently using this in my Corsair 4000D. I manage to use normal DP and HDMI cables but I’d never disconnect those cables. It’s too big of a hassle to connect those cables.
Yep it's kind of a undocumented caveat when installing this mount kit. Had to bend one of the slot crossbars in order to properly connect the display port cable (should have done that BEFORE mounting the card, maybe 🙄). But after sliding the card inside a bit, it could be bent back to its original form.
Guess my Dremel will finally see some use lol
Yea Why no one is mentioning how stupid this design is?
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I would like to see 2 topics being adressed in a future video. 1. What to do with any pcie Expansion card. 2. What are the temperatures like when you mount a fan underneath the gpu so its blowing additional air thru the heatsink of the vertical mounted gpu.
I have the white version of this, I've been using it for my strix 3090 in a white 011d xl case for about a year now. my gpu temps are no better or worse even with 3 fans still on the bottom for intake, but my motherboard chipset temps did come down from the gpu being away from the motherboard.
I have a P8 and I have a vertical GPU, with a vertical Sound card and a Vertical NVMe card for my business.
All i had to do was buy 2 PCIe risers, and they are VERY flexible. Which allowed me to give it a slight bend without a crease. It's been working great for about 3 years so far.
Vertical Mounted 4090 owner here, 1. depends on the case, the Thermaltake CTE C750 Air you can occupy all PCI-e slots if GPU is in the vertical float position. 2. temps will change when fans are aiding the GPU, especially hot spot temps, since the hotspot is the backside of chip and is transferred to the back-plate.
I have a hyte y60 with fans blowing up through the gpu. Didn't really help until I put some additional heatsinks on the gpu backplate. As there was space, and they're not visible, I thought I may as well!
@@TheMerce101 The Y60/Y70's airflow is slightly restricted. It was a case I was considering but then I saw Thermaltake's CTE C750 Air and plan on getting that once I have cash to drop on Alphacool Eiswolf 2 AIO for Asus Tuf RTX 4090 and a crap ton of new fans.
Currently I have the Lian Li Lancool 3, 3 fans blowing up from the bottom and it helps, I even tested a fan directly behind the card using a 3D printed PCI bracket for a 120mm slim fan. Reduced hot spot by 10c.
TLDR: vertical mounting is mainly for aesthetics
Main reason why I have mine mounted vertically in my o11 air mini. 😂
that or fitting a WC 4090 block inside a case LOL Because of the height + the fitting it doesn't fit a lot of case even big one so mounthing this way is the only way
@@ryogaming4771 chonker cards are better to be vertically mounted to prevent cracked pcb's
@@SkateClipsAndTips Which is why I have an anti-sag bracket for my 3090.
while not unexpected.... I wish I hadn't scrolled down and seen this before finishing the video.
So, this particular mount that you used, is what I used to have in my rig. I found that over time, the card warped the metal of the mount, probably through a combination of heat and weight, and eventually started to droop a little in the case. Concept is great and I always use vertical mounts on my GPUs, but there are better-built mounts available.
What would you recommend over this? I'm in the market for one for an H9 Elite case
I've used various high-end expensive vertical mounts... I've had this for 6 months now in white and it is by far THE best one
me too. i've been using this vertical mount with my 4080 in my phanteks nv5 since december with zero issues. i tried like 3 different vertical mounts before i found this one.. highly recommend
I'd argue the EK-Loop Vertical GPU Holder EVO is better and is way sturdier.
@@The-Choo-Choo-Shoe - I've got the first version and the EVO in my 2 rigs. The EVO makes it a bit easier to _unlatch_ the video card. With the original, if you don't use the supplied PCIE-3 riser cable (in my case a LINKUP PCIE-4 riser cable) with the protrusion out the side it is fiddly. I also think the way EK offering mounts is very sturdy utilising the RHS motherboard mounts for triangulation.
@@The-Choo-Choo-Shoe yea you're right because it screws into 2 of the side mobo standoffs.. But both are sturdy enough, my case I have a huge gigabyte 4080, and would prefer adjustability with the Cooler Master one, especially in my case because I'm running a huge 60mm radiator WITH tubing running to the back of the case.. I'm literally able to adjust the mount so it sits between the rear and front tube, literally MM's to spare
I'm using the same vertical mount. It's great
I have a V2 from cooler master. And, I can confirm if you have a bottom mounted fan, at least 1, then a vertical mount is very helpful in moving air through the GPU fins much faster. I have a Corsair 4000d with 80mm fan tied to the grill on the PSU shroud and it makes a TON of difference in my case.
I hate how living in Australia mean we have to pay sooo much more for things like this. It's $33.50 in US and $130 here in Australia.... why aren't we allowed to have nice things???
I’m right there with ya mate😞
The same happens here in Canada and we share a border with the states. Items tend to double in price just buy Crossing that border.
My guess is the government wants the extra money by over charging to import or they made the cost high so people are more inclined to source things "locally" keeping the money in
In Germany, I paid €45 from Amazon.
Pretty much simillar in Brazil…
for this setup, an exhaust fan at the bottom will help, else the hot air from the bottom will go up, and the intake fans of the GPU will push it inside the GPU.
but the best setup will always be: a "tube" getting fresh air from the front of the case directly to the gpu.
so 1 fan will get air from the front panel, the tube will guide the air flow to the gpu
so the hot air will not go back to the GPU
the other way to have a good air flow is to have a larger heat sink directed to the back, and 2 small fans getting fresh air from the front, the flow go through the heatsink and directly outside the case on the back.
like in a server where all the components are aligned to let the air coming from the front to the back.
Horizontal slide adjustment is a great idea.
I been working with a white Phanteks case with a Phanteks white vertical mount. The mount is sleek but very sturdy. It absolutely ties the case together showing off the sexy vertical VC.
I have the black :)
Yup my pc is in my profile picture with the phanteks vertical mount in the phanteks nv7 and it looks good.
just got this mount for my 4080 super AORUS.. it actually does help with the temps!! I have a full tower case and modified the case to allow it to exhaust hot gpu air directly out of the case (only works if you have a blower card that exhausts from the top of the card). great video Jay! been learning from you for years now!
Oh cool. I bought that a few months back just to be able to look at my beautiful EVGA 3080Ti. I did notice it ran a tiny bit cooler in games, keeping the same settings, about 3-5C depending on the game. It was a nice added bonus.
Bought the white version, in my white H710 tower, looks good to me!
I have that in my O11 and it honestly made doing my custom loop a lot easier because of the adjustability and when I bought a new gpu I was able to use the same tubes even though my new block had ports in a different spot because of how much you can move it.
Thanks for show casing this vertical GPU mount. I have seen others and wasn't interested in them due to fitting issues. The designers/engineers of this vertical mount seems to have though-out this issue quite well. Will get this for a new PC build. I didn't expect any improvements in cooling as in-take/exhaust fans/air remained the same. However, I do see a benefit of such mount that the weight of the GPU is no longer on the mobo, thus less stress on the PCI-E mounting port.
Been using this vertical mount from CM with my GPUs for almost 2 years now, and it's the best universal one out there hands down.
I think the whole layout of motherboards and GPUs might have to change. Imagine insteag of an PCIe slot having something like the CAMM2 connector for your GPU. The GPU could now sit so close to the MB, that the GPU cooler could look like an CPU Aircooler. Those standarts for ATX, PCIe and whatever are pretty old. Maybe rethinking this standards could open new possibilitys.
Its only a matter of time before we start making separate cases entirely for just the gpu and dont even put the gpu inside the main pc case. Were already using strimers.
The GPU PCIE5 traces shouldn't be long, I have wondered about having the GPU above the CPU expelling air from the case top at the back, rather than into the RAM/VRM area of the mobo.
It would reduce the chance of water cooling leaks running into expensive GPU.
Stand... Darts??? XD
@@Nareimooncatt whoops
I have this exact vertical mount! It works really really well but I had to cut out some I/O shield dividers from my Corsair 5000D Airflow to be able to mount it perfectly. I love how robust it is and doesn't sag at all with my GIGABYTE 4090 Gaming OC.
Thanks for the video Jay...I was concerned about the temps when vertically monuting the GPU. Its all clear now
I like that device. With the weight of many cards and the horizontal stress they put on the pcb, it's a great add-on to modernize older cases. I might buy a couple of those kits for stock.
My big concern would be losing temperature in cases with bottom mounted fans, as now less than half the air would be going on the correct side.
When in contrast with a pc case with front blowing fans, regardless of the orientation of the gpu, it's always facing perpendicular to the fans.
if you need a vertical mount usually depends on the direction of the gpu fins. i dont use one because my gpu has fins that direct air out the front and back, but i would have enjoyed one when i had my 390x because the fins make the air go out the sides and recirculate
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Can confirm 4 slot GPU fits perfectly fine.
I have that Cooler Master GPU vertical mount and riser cable. Love it. You can’t appreciate the ROG Strix 4090 without one. 😊
I have the same setup and agree with you 100%. Plus, we don’t have to worry about the heavy ass brick of a GPU bending the PCIe slot!
I've been using this mount for about a year. I use it with a EVGA 3080 FTW3 ultra card. The card stays nice and cool. Also the adjustments are nice for this bracket.
My Case is the NZXT H6 flow
I have this exact riser in one of my builds and it’s such a good quality kit.
Been using mine now for about 4 months, no sag issues with my humongous AMD Powercolor Hellhound 7800 XT card. Very happy with this product. Like Jay mentioned, it is very sturdy and highly adjustable for any case. Fits great in my corsair D4000 airflow case. I Highly recommend it, specially for water cool builds.
I bought a mount like this years ago and I love it.
Mine is aluminum and really compact. It requires you to remove the horizontal slats in between the PCI-e slots (if your case still has them, some new ones don't).
In return you don't ever have to care about the monitor cables or GPU length going up by more than a few mm.
It looks cooler does that count. ;) Jay and his Crew Rocks. Thanks man.
I live in a tropical climate and for the last two years only mount GPUs vertically, there is IMHO a clear benefit to it from an airflow standpoint. I combined mine with a Jiushark Diamond CPU cooler and I have a nifty front to back airflow design.
I can see your point i have the hyte y60 and it looks so good but they clearly thought about cooling gpu before doing it as putting fans underneath it in the floor seems really smart and good way to cool it
I like it and thanks for showing it in a H7, i have a H7 case so now i know how it will look
This is a great kit by Cooler Masters. I have it installed in my Lian Li Vision case and its supporting a 7900xtx ASUS TUFF (beefy Card NOO SAG) very impressed. Worth the price.
Put it in a mesh sided case and it makes a difference. I have a reference 6800XT vertical mounted in a Fractal North mesh and dropped temps moving from the same setup in a glass sided case.
I threw one of these in my 011 since they didn't make the "DLC" vertical anymore in order to prevent the cable on my 4090 from bending. It worked great with getting good temps all around since it didn't completely obstruct a bunch of fans. I love that it kinda goes in just about any case.
I have the same mount and have been happy with it's use for over 6 months now!
Im currently using this vert gpu mount, it is functional especially for my big rog strix gpu.
Been using the white version of this vertical mount for half a year now and I love it! It allowed me to position it to have an extra fan blowing across the heatsink fins since my card is a dual fan not triple. Temps rarely crack 50*C and that's on ultra cyberpunk 2077.
This looks way easier to install than the old EKWB vertical mount, I was always very paranoid about knocking board SMD's off when fitting that thing.
I recently used one of these when I needed to upgrade the GPU in my wife's oooold 800D case to a donated 3090 from a friend. The 3090 conflicted with something on the MB, so I raced off to the "Candy Store" (aka MicroCenter) and in the DIY pc parts area ran into a VERY helpful employee who reminded me the case had bars between the slots, and this mount would help us so I could slide the card back towards the front of the case and run the DP cable between the bars to the recessed 3090. GREAT when trying to shoehorn something in as you upgrade bits to keep an older rig alive!
The @technologyhive uploaded a video about vertical mounts being pretty much the only solution to mounting heavy gpus. Guy fixes gpus for a living and those little stand/support things that come with gpus these days are actually causing bending on the the boards and breaking the solder joints on many cards. Worth the watch imo.
You also add another point of failure/bottleneck by using a riser cable. You should only vertical mount for space restrictions.
Choosing a white case to showcase a black accessory is not an error. It's a feature: good contrast for accessibility and ease of consuption.
I have this mount in my Lian Li o11 dynamic XL case and its very good, for me the best way to mount my GPU vertical.
crazy, I bought a 4080 Super and that exact same vertical mount for my NZXt h9 Flow yesterday to come home and see this very video same gfx and vert mount. nice....
I mounted my 7900XTX Red Devil vertically (with universal mount LINKUP - AVA Universal Vertical GPU Bracket, look at the Amazon if you want it) year and a half ago, and it lowered 2-3 degrees of GPU :) The main trick is that my case - Corsair 5000D Airflow has 3 intake 120mm fans on the right side, and together with frontal intake fans the main cold airflow inside the case is shifted towards left side, and that's where the GPU is. :) I really suggest to Jay to re-check horizontal-vertical GPU temps with a case with right-side intake fans, like 5000D. The airflow can be shown even in "Smoke test" :)
I have a vertical mount bracket for my 4090 that doesn't screw into the case at all, its held in place by two powerfull magnetic feet giving it better sag support, this lets me move the card forward, back, side to side, and rotate. It also is adjustible for pitch, so if I want the fans to face up more it can, or with swapping a couple parts around it can pitch the fans down a bit so the air blows upward.
I just wouldn't move the computer around much without removing the card.
And thermal performance is on par with this test.
i got this mount last year and ive got the asrock taichi rx 7900 xtx white mounted on it in the lian li O11 dynamic evo case and it looks great and its not heating up at all. im very happy with it.
I'm running this vertical mount in my O11 with Gigabyte RTX4090 Gaming OC for a year now without any problems. This graphics card is so tall, that with power connector on top, I wouldn't be able to connect the 12VHPWR connector, because it would hit the glass when GPU was mounted horizontally. Also no problems with signal integrity when PCI-E gen.4 is enabled - never had any problems booting, artifacting or display blinking. Can recommend.
I literally just bought this kit the other day. I have it in a Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2. I needed something to turn the GPU since my 7900 XTX is water cooled with an Alpha Cool block & Air kept getting trapped when it was mounted normally. With the adjustments the mount has, you still have clearance for smaller PCIE add on cards, like a SATA card or some capture card. It put the weight onto the entire mounting area of the expansion are, so unless your case is flimsy it mounts great! I'll update this if I find something inherently wrong or was overlooked.
Heres a puzzle. Where my gpu riser mount sits is level - tested as level. The riser is level. The case is level in all other respects. The riser is setup so it’s at the exact height needed so the card doesn’t sag etc. Then I put the gpu in and the gpu is … not level … it sags down at the front. The card is inserted perfectly.
So I need to out several 5mm ish standoffs at the front of the vertical mount. Every is level again … or everything except for the gpu mount which tilts upward.
Still, all good!
I use this mount with a Strix RTX 4090 OC with no sag for the last 6 months. I did have to use a Velcro to keep it from sliding back when you plug in your cables. My temps got better. NZXT H9 Flow with 3 fans on the bottom.
i have 1 it works great and with the weight of a triple slot card has no weight on 16x slot on the MB. a vertical mount also relieves stress on the gpu pcb
I always had issues with the heat sink sagging away from the card on horizontal mounted cards. Yes there is bracing for that but vertical mounting always just made more sense to me.
Got it pain to fit but works
Been using that exact mount for about 6 months now, have to say like you I was shocked at how well built it is. Mine house a 7900 XTX and this version (AMD ref) blows only through top and bottom. It has improved by about 5 degrees since installing this and more importantly never throttles. I can highly recommend this guys, Thanks for sharing Jay
You were throttling before this? It might be that vapor chamber issue. I was just curious because I run the same gpu atm.
Ive been using this mount for a year atleast. I have tried several and this one is the best easily .Holds my Founders 4090 perfectly with no sagging unlike most
YES Yes Yes Vertical mounts , absolutely improve cooling. In my Y70 touch build, not only do I have a water cooled block on it, but I have two fans cooling from the bottom of the case, So it gets the benefit of both air and water on the GPU
I bought this mount about a month ago for my 7900xtx and it actually made a difference about 5-10c difference
Looks good. A riser card is useful in some cases. It does complicate the installation of a video card but helpful when the weight of the video card may be causing stress issues on the motherbaord.
The premium phanteks vertical mount with rgb is perfect for my 4090. Sits back away from the glass and keeps temps over 5 degrees cooler compared to horizontal mount and is more secure with the extra support bracket that screws into the back of the GPU.
I got that about 4 months ago to let my 4080 fit in my case without crushing the wires at the top.... it works good.and yes super adjusterable
i used the coolermaster vert bracket in my nzxt h7 flow and it was amazing, took a bit of doing but once done was solid as hell, have sold it and dude took it 4 hours home like that, he took a paper towel folded it up and put it under the far end
This is the exact same mount I use in my h9 flow, and I love it. It easily holds my 4080, and it is really adjustable so I could get excellent airflow. Temps have never broken 65c
using that exact CoolerMaster Vertical mount with my Gigabyte Gaming OC 4080 in the NZXT H6 Flow case, temps are great, plenty of room between the card and glass and it looks dead sexy.
Thank you for making this video and all the extra hands on commentary - it means a lot.
I've had my RX 6800 vertical mounted for a year plus now and it definitely helps disperse the heat more efficiently, always cold air flowing out top and back exhaust the only heat I get from the card goes straight out the case.
TIP: get a right angle extension thought, not a straight extender cable
For me, the real benefit of vertical mount is for heavy graphic cards.
With some custom one, we can reach the kilogram.
Even with enforced PCi-e slots, it's still big for it.
A vertical mount put the PCi-e slot on the bottom so we have not this pressure on PCBs.
Hey Jay, great test! You should try this with other types of cards, such as blower style founders edition cards. As these cards exhaust a good portion out the rear expansion slot, they may suffer in a vertical mount orientation
If you want the best vertical mount you have to get the "EK-Loop Vertical GPU Holder EVO", it screws into the motherboard for extra strength and it's awesome. There is no competition.
If it's from EK though, Jay is probably not going to give it a try. He recently removed all of the EK stuff from his builds as much as he could.
@@sp00n Yeah, I know. He was just talking about "triangulating" and how important it is and it's what the EK one does and afaik the only one, every other one I've tested is crap.
i love that you can slide it sideways allowing you to move the card further from the glass panel
People just need to remember that this won't work if your PCI slots have permanant brackets between the removeable slot covers!
An exceptional support I have mounted on it one of the biggest and heaviest video cards of the moment I am talking about the 7900xtx vapor x
As a case I use Torque and so I don't have any kind of space problem
I bought this mount about a month ago. Fitting the GPU onto the connector was tricky. But I noticed my SSD temps were high due to the GPU blocking airflow over the heatsink, so just moved it away by a centimetre with 1 simple screw turn.
And yes, it looks wonky
That's why I ended up going the route of a cheap brand case(Gamdiaz Neso P1) I wanted to vertical mount for a while and ended up getting that case when i switched over to a 40 series aorus master, and the great thing about the case is there's multiple positions for the riser cable to be screwed to the bottom of the case + I could fit a 420 aio at the back for the i9, so now I have cool air blowing through the aio + have cool air blowing through the graphics card, the reason for me wanting to go with vertical was simple
1. Aesthetics
2. More direct cooling over the graphics card
3. Prevention from possibly cracking the pcb(but gigabyte improved with the later revisions on the pcb design at the latch and using the new 12v2x6).
And as Jay mentioned it's always a good thing to have support at 3 contact points, that's why I've also used the factory anti sag holes on the gpu and laser cut a piece of acrylic to support the gpu at the back as well, so now it's secured at the io side,on the bottom at the riser and at the back of the gpu.
Now I'm just curious myself if there's any benefits of having the bottom fans blow onto the gpu from underneath and/if it will impact the gpu fans performance as they'll essentially blows into each other
I've had this vertical mount for quite a while.. it's great. I actually think I mentioned it almost a year ago on one of your videos 😂
NZXT has there own vertical mounts. There fantastic, nothing flimsy metal. With support on the other end..... And you could use it for other cases as well.
That metal housing on the card can absorb heat as well. It would be a good test, I vote cooler than default.
It's like a dollar store version of the O11DXL mount, except that is not flimsy at all. I have a 4080 Super vertically mounted on my O11DXL-ROG case and it's really good. Can take my PC with me without worrying about the GPU tearing off the PCI-e alot etc.
In my 800d going Vertical (With 3 inches between the fans and the door.) made the my 3080ti temps rise by 8*F. Switched back and temps lowered back down 8*F. Kept it this way for 5+ years now and never looked back.
Hahah what a coincidence!!! I ordered this one yesterday.... And shipped it back.... Doesn't fit on the Lian Li dynamic XL ROG.
The Phantek vertical mount fits perfectly though
I love Cooler Master designs, I had tons of their stuff, and coolers from back in the day, they really pushed the envelope of design and innovation for years
Imo black part in white case (or white part in black case) is the perfect choice to show/demo the product.
Sure, most ppl would buy the matching colour for their build but for the video it's better to have the contrast.
If you have vertical, it would technicsly be better because then if the tempered glass has holes in it then the gpu will push out hot air if the case is Laying down on its back, and the fans on the gpu push out air, pls consider this, it would be a big change,
Ps, i would want to design a case for you or give you ideas
Son uses a lian li vertical mount in his corsair C70 case. So far the 1080Ti ftw3 has had no problems. other then we did cut a few off the PCI-E slots so the cables could hook up.
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I got one of these for my birthday! I have that nzxt 510 everyone has. It barely fit. I have my radiator in the front. I had to get half height fans in front. I can't screw in the fan bracket, because it doesn't allow for enough air flow. But it looks damn good! And my XFX '6800 doesn't droop anymore.
Edit: I didnt want to mar my case to hook up to my monitor. So I got a cord extender and snaked it out the back.
I have an O11 clone with a 360 rad in the top sucking air up and three 120's sucking air into the rear compartment and just a 360 filter in the case floor. I tested the GPU temps in horizontal and vertical, and vertical showed better temps and higher benchmark averages.
Not that it looks like you have to worry about sag, but there should have been an included slotted angle bracket to be used as a support foot for the GPU.
The slight upward angle drove me nuts. I admit that's a me problem, but I still had to return it. I also seem to remember that the plastic clamps still allow the card holder to fall out forward as there's no metal lip on the back of the channel... if that makes sense. No big deal really, but definitely means the PC shouldn't be shipped with the card installed. Be careful moving it around, even. There's not really a better option out there, unfortunately, unless you make your own.
11:30 more like a portion of the heat from the GPU is transferred to the chipset/NVMe heatsink w/c indirectly increases those component's temperatures. I had my 3080 completely overheat my secondary NVMe storage to the point where it stops functioning and freezes my PC just because it's positioned right beside the exhaust side of it and my only solution is to increase fan speed of the case as well as buying a 3rd party NVMe heatsink for my storage to not directly have the heat of the GPU. Good thing is that I am using a Lian Li Lancool II Mesh and I have 2 TF120 case fans on the bottom blowing air to my GPU w/c blows the exhaust upward to prevent my GPU's exhausted air to heatup my motherboard and all of the components attached to it.
I bought this and for me it helps my gpu cooling. Maybe because I have fans below my gpu, compared to my old case. From usually 80 deg to 67-70 but no much on core temps, around +\-4 degree celcius cooler
I've got an EZDIY-FAB equivalent - similarly adjustable, but it was cheaper and has RGB which we all know makes things faster! (A few years ago I had a Thermaltake case that came with a vertical mount, but a combination of terrible design and an acrylic side panel meant my 980Ti was too close to the side and the heat softened the plastic enough that the fans caused it to bow inwards and start rubbing against it.)
Love this GPU riser, I have one as well.
ive been looking at that mount for a while and was a little worried about temps on my 7900XT and seeing this makes me feel more comfortable at getting one :)
I wish I could share pictures of it, but I modified my GameMax Mesh Box case to hold my GPU vertically. The expansion slot bay is not open so it wasn't possible to install something like this. I modified the GPU rear bracket and this 90 degree plate that mounts up against the expansion slots. It actually looks almost natural to be mounted vertically in my case.
I had this for a few months. Worked fine with my air cooled 7900XT. I decided to ditch it when I got a water block for my card. Tubing runs just didn't work out to my liking using the vertical mount. Turned out nicer looking mounted normally.