Thursday, April 26, 2012

SATA port sitting right between my video card and it's cooling fan... healthy?

I just purchased a Geforce GTX 460, it's perfect except for one thing, the sata wire of one of my drives was in the way, there was no other way for me to connect the card unless i transferred the sata wire to a sata port right between the video card and it's really large cooling device. I also had to bend the sata wire hard and in an obscure angle so that it doesn't touch any of the circuits of the video card. Is this healthy both for the sata wire and the video card? if for some reason the wire slowly unfolds and starts making contact with on of the "bulb" like metal things on the video card, would that be dangerous?



here are images of the card, as you can see the black cooling device takes up a huge amount of real estate, and those 3 metal bulb-like things are the first things the sata wire will touch should they start unfolding:



http://www.yugatech.com/blog/pc-gaming/i…



Thanks!|||You should be fine. Those bulb things are solid state capacitors. They can get warm, but not enough to do any damage to the insulation on the SATA data cable. The important thing is not to put a kink (or crease) in the cable by bending it too far. That can cause the wires inside to break and screw up data transmission.

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