I need help with a simple issue [clip]

[me7alftw]

I am having a problem with my motherboard (asrock 980de3/u3s3)
Recently I saw that most my games were causing my gpu fan to go up to 80% and I thought this isn't normal for my sapphire r9 280x dual x.
Decided to see what was the problem and apparently 1 fan isn't working. I saw plenty of dust and decided to clean it, I tried removing the card but I can't seem to get it off. The damn "clip" or whatever it is just frustrating me since I don't know where to push it to, left, down, right, up and I decided to ask you lads instead of pushing it and breaking it.
Here are some pictures of how it looks (or at least I hope it is THE CLIP):
https://postimg.org/image/47qyntd0z/
https://postimg.org/image/piois2v5f/
https://postimg.org/image/uu8h9wnjn/
I know it's a simple question, I tried pushing it left,right,up,down with lil pressure, but I'd rather ask an amateur question than be a smarta** and break the motherboard

 

[Dunlop0078]

I hate those tension clips. I think you would pull the clip to the left away from the gpu, if not its to the right towards the gpu, not up or down. Its not going to click out of place or anything you just need to bend it out of the way to allow the gpu to pass by the clip try not to break the clip though its not the end of the world if you do, It may take a bit of force to pull the gpu out and I would disconnect the pcie power cables first.

 

[little_me]

since the board is old enough to have old PATA connectors, it might also be to both directions!
Sample image from different angle.
http://i.imgur.com/4YzUBl0.jpg

In that case, since fan blocks other side, you would just need bit more force since the locking latch isn't as big and sturdy (and only on one side) as they are now.

 

[me7alftw]

I did small pushes to the left, 4-5 pushes with lil pressure instead of 1 with force and it worked, got it out, cleaned it. The only thing I didn't expect was that CMOS error that I fixed about the date, and when I ran my computer, it messed up my boot order, it booted up on the hdd I got scared that something happened to the SSD but it just resetted the boot order. Thanks dunlop for helping and little for giving me that extra info. Both of you have a nice day !

 

[me7alftw]

I hate those tension clips. I think you would pull the clip to the left away from the gpu, if not its to the right towards the gpu, not up or down. Its not going to click out of place or anything you just need to bend it out of the way to allow the gpu to pass by the clip try not to break the clip though its not the end of the world if you do, It may take a bit of force to pull the gpu out and I would disconnect the pcie power cables first.

I did what u said and It all worked out, The sad thing is that probably one of my fans is gone, I cleaned all the dust and still isn't moving, any tips on fixing it ? Should I buy a pair of new ones ? since I doubt they go separately, probably always a pair

 

[Dunlop0078]

What gpu is that specifically? And what temps are you getting under load? Usually you cant buy replacement gpu fans and if you could there would be no way to install them. Let me know what gpu you have and I will take a look. If not i'm sure we can rig something up with maybe a case fan.

 

[me7alftw]

What gpu is that specifically? And what temps are you getting under load? Usually you cant buy replacement gpu fans and if you could there would be no way to install them. Let me know what gpu you have and I will take a look. If not i'm sure we can rig something up with maybe a case fan.

Uhm, I said it up there but yeah, it is sapphire r9 280 dual x : https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/b2845/sapphire-dual-x-r9-280-oc-with-boost
Fan was working ok but since some days ( 3-5 days ) I noticed that the graphics card was unusually hot. It used to go up to 70-73 under heavy pressure like Mirror's edge catalyst ón high/very high or dirt rally on very high/ultra, now games like The forest that I used to run on my old cpu & gpu the temperatures go up to 80 and the fan spins up to 80-85% while the normal for me is 65-70 under VERY HIGH LOAD, now it's 80 on below average-average. I just put my phone and recorded the fan, it started spinning when I hit 90% fan on MSI Afterburner but I don't think it was as fast as the other fan.