[winkeltripel]

Could we just follow the atx spec? There is a maximum length for expansion cards, and at that end there are optional supports. These are in servers already. Just start using all that case volume to support the GPU.

[somat]

Cheers, bravo, exactly what I wanted to say. However just to be pedantic, I just read the atx spec to find this exact information and it is not there. I suspect the expansion card dimensions are in the pci spec.

[Nition]

Is that the same as the one shown in the article's spec diagram, or something different again?

[Lammy]

My case has these and I would love to know the proper keywords to find extension brackets I could add to my shorter cards. Searching for "extender" returns electrical extenders for the PCIe port itself.

[MBCook]

I was always under the impression that was to help stabilize long cards so they don’t sag or fall during transport.

But these aren’t just long cards. They have huge heavy chunks of metal and fans on them in the name of cooling.

Are those brackets strong enough for the job? I remember them being basically shallow plastic slots.

[stjohnswarts]

there are $10 brackets that solve all this for most people, not sure why there is an HN panic to suddenly rearchitect the whole PC gaming platform.