An 1150 socket motherboard that can comfortably fit a Gigabyte 1060 6gb?

[Normalcey]

my current motherboard, a gigabyte z97-hd3, one slot if I put the card in won't fit because of the battery, the other one KINDA fits, but it puts a lot of pressure on my two SATA cables, and the card doesn't push in all the way.

Every motherboard I look at, I don't see the 1060 fitting nicely, does anyone know of one that could fit it without screwing up a part of the motherboard. Thanks

 

[Calvin7]

You need to use Right Angle SATA data cables.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16812200079

 

[ko888]

Using the PCIEX4 slot for the GTX 1060 is just wrong since it is only four PCIe 2.0 lanes wired to the Z97 chipset. The only slot you should be using for the graphics card is the PCIEX16 slot since it is PCIe 3.0 with a full 16 lanes wired to the CPU.

What is the brand and model of the GeForce GTX 1060 card?

 

[Normalcey]

Using the PCIEX4 slot for the GTX 1060 is just wrong since it is only four PCIe 2.0 lanes wired to the Z97 chipset. The only slot you should be using for the graphics card is the PCIEX16 slot since it is PCIe 3.0 with a full 16 lanes wired to the CPU.


What is the brand and model of the GeForce GTX 1060 card?

I'm not sure what you're saying, I'm not using a x4 slot for the graphics card. it's a gigabyte windforce 6GB.

If you look at the picture of my motherboard you can see one slot is unusable because of the battery being right beside it. The other slot with a big graphics card it covers the SATA ports.


Edit, looking at that picture yeah I can see that the thing says X4 above it, I guess my motherboard is just a flaming sack of garbage? Why would they put the important x16 in such an unusable spot?

 

[ko888]

I don't see how the coin cell battery can interfere in any way with the installation of the graphics card.

 

[Normalcey]

The graphics card's fan won't even allow the card to be inserted because of that battery. Even if that battery wasn't there, the thing under it would also get in the way of the fan. There is just zero room on that actual x16 slot for anything to fit.

As an example look at the x4 slot my card is currently in. The fan ends up covering all of the sata ports, so there is zero chance it's fitting with all that stuff next to it on the x16 slot.

 

[ko888]

What is there that is protruding down enough to make contact with the coin cell battery's socket?

 

[Normalcey]

What is there that is protruding down enough to make contact with the coin cell battery's socket?

The battery sticks out quite a bit, it's easier to see from a side picture. If I try and put a card in their it just won't go in because the fan is stopped by the battery.

 

[ko888]

The coin cell socket should not be any taller than the height of the PCIEX16 slot.

 

[Normalcey]

The coin cell socket should not be any taller than the height of the PCIEX16 slot.

Well in order to prove you wrong I took it out and tried putting it in that slot. Yep. You were right, I was less right. My 970 didn't fit in that slot for sure, so I didn't even try with this one. I would say thanks, but I'm feeling pretty stupid right now. Thanks for that.

 

[ko888]

The coin cell socket should not be any taller than the height of the PCIEX16 slot.

Well in order to prove you wrong I took it out and tried putting it in that slot. Yep. You were right, I was less right. My 970 didn't fit in that slot for sure, so I didn't even try with this one. I would say thanks, but I'm feeling pretty stupid right now. Thanks for that.

Don't feel bad. Some need a little more persuasion than others to give it another go.