Removing the DVI port from a graphic card

[Robert Petrache]

Hello,

I'm thinking of doing a special project and before I start destroying a graphic card I want to ask maybe someone else have an idea about.

What I want to do is to remove the DVI port from graphic card so I can make them 1 slot instead of 2, after that apply an waterblock on them and cut the bracket in half. This way, in my mind I can use more video cards in a system giving the fact that normally half of the PCI-E are covered by the 2 slots graphics.

Thanks for your time!

 

[Max1s]

If nothing is plugged into the port, I believe the port is the electrical equivilant of a bunch of wires hanging off the end of the card that aren't connected to anything. So if you heated up the solder and plugged off the port, you wouldn't be making any changes to the electrical circuit on the card, you are just "shortening" those output "wires."

Does this make sense? I'm only guessing here...

 

[Max1s]

I think you'll find that the challenge will be heating up all the contact points at once, where the port meets the PCB. It's easy to heat up a single solder point with an iron in order to pull off a wire, but if you've got like 10 contact points, you'll have to heat them all up at once to pull the port off.

Or you could just use the cutting tool of a dremel or something... But that's kinda sketchy...

Which card is this? Can you take a picture of the port?

 

[little_me]

While I agree with Max1s that removing the port wont actually hurt the card, I don't see a great benefit in it.
especially not one you are trying to accomplish, why you ask?

95% or more of motherboard manufacturers do not put TWO pci-e 16x slots next to each other, so even if you remove heat spreaders and stuff, you cannot plug in next GPU to the adjacent PCI-e 1x port that is now freed up.

That being said, you should recheck the pci-e slot spread on your to be motherboard since normally you will not benefit from it like that.

 

[LePhuronn]

While I agree with Max1s that removing the port wont actually hurt the card, I don't see a great benefit in it.
especially not one you are trying to accomplish, why you ask?

95% or more of motherboard manufacturers do not put TWO pci-e 16x slots next to each other, so even if you remove heat spreaders and stuff, you cannot plug in next GPU to the adjacent PCI-e 1x port that is now freed up.

That being said, you should recheck the pci-e slot spread on your to be motherboard since normally you will not benefit from it like that.

Heaven forfend you'd want to put a sound card, network card or M.2 riser card in the 4x or 1x port that's always covered by a dual-width graphics card. You can't see the benefit? I've given you 3 reasons right there.