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Hey guys,

I recently invested in 4 GTX 780 cards, which are running GREAT. However there is one major hiccup. In the bottom of my motherboard, the fourth/last graphics card are blocking the connectors in the bottom of the motherboard (the small connectors to power, led, reset and hdd light) as well as the HD audio cable that provides audio to the front of my case. So right now I don't have any of those cables connected in order to make space for the last gpu. This workaround really isn't optimal though, as I don't have any audio for my headphones, and every time I wanna turn on the computer, I have to flip the power switch on the mobo it self

Here's a picture of my motherboard - you can see that the connectors in the bottom of the mobo is very close to the last pci slot.
http://www.back2gaming.com/wp-content/g ... 10t010.JPG

I know a lot of mobos have this problem. Do you know of any solutions to this?? I think I remember seeing that someone in here used some angular converters of some sort?

plug all those connectors in before slotting a card & forget =) I've done the same few days ago on my ASUS & bottom GPU.

Yeah, You can bend something, but apply force gently. GPU's are not touching the motherboard, there is a gap..so it shouldn't be a big of a trouble. You might find some angular connections, but I guess they will not help too much anyway..

as far as I remember some users already talked about this issue here, but no solution was founded (but search through forum, maybe I've missed something =)

Thanks a lot Glimpse, I'm gonna try my luck and bend those connectors then

some motherboards has some type of raiser.. where You plug all Your wires from the case & the slot it on the motherboard. Don't use it connect Your power, reset, led directly - this will save You some space =)

You sillys

there are PCI-E extender cables

Though it may be unorthodox, if you are using PC-case. But what else you gonna do?

p.s. ordered some from China. 2 weeks have passed... Still waiting.

Some time ago I posted the same problem - what I did I slightly bent the connectors.