Putting a GTX 560ti in a 8x slot

[Sammjoey]

Hello, I recently built a new rig (2500k, asus maximus IV gene-z, D14, GTX 560 ti...) And I've had lots of blue screens and crashes, I sent the GPU back to Novatech and they say theres nothing wrong with it? and I believe the case to be the clips on the D14 touching the PCB of the 560 ti, so I was wondering to combat this, would putting the 560 ti in the second (8x) slot be a simple solution without having any effect on the proformance, Novatech said it wouldn't do any damage to the proformance, but then again they also did say there was definitly a problem with my GPU when I spoke to them about it prior to sending it back to them. So I thought I'd ask the most trust worthy source I know...You guys

 

[SnW]

You can just use the 8x PCI-E slot no problem at all , nor any peformance lose...

 

[Sammjoey]

Alright thank you, i wasn't sure being a first time builder.

But this is quite Lolz worthy...on the email from Novatech sending me back my GPU it also has that they're sending me everything els too?

Either the guy who was sorting sending me my GPU back messed up, or the emails wrong.

If it was the guy messing up then boy monday will be fun.

 

[nothingspecial]

If you do want to put it in the 16x slot with the D14, what you could to is get a bit of heatshrink, pop the arms off the fans, put about an inch of it on the middle part, and voila, no more worries about shorting

Edit: And it's about bloody time GPU manufacturers started making backplates part of reference spec! Suprised neither the red or green camp haven't got on this yet.

 

[Sammjoey]

Yeah i know what you mean, I'd get the back plate for it, but it has to come Directly from EVGA which will possibly take a while-.-