Graphics card heat sink blocking PCI slot

Yes alphanumeric you are spot on.

I decided to buy a PCI-E extender. It's not ideal but the graphics card has been fine and I don't want to get rid of it or mess with the heat sink. Fingers crossed that it works.

Thanks for helping me decide.

Hopefully it works for you, even if it doesn't you won't be out of pocket for very much.

alphanumeric said:

I think what he means is his case has more mounting points than the motherboard has connectors for. Mine is that way, I have slots where I can mount a card in my case but there is no motherboard card connector there to plug one into. The card would be mounted in the case but not plugged into the motherboard.

I thought that it might be something like that. As chrisino hasn't shared the motherboard type with us, the likelihood of the card + cable clearing onboard components is impossible to guess. It looks like his/her financial exposure is limited. I hope that she/he has the wisdom to not force things beyond the breaking point.

@bobkn, thats why I suggested test fitting the card before hand to see if it hits a capacitor or if its blocked by the RAM modules, etc. I don't think that extension cable was very expensive so it won't be a big deal if it doesn't work.