Antec could have simply discovered the final space of your gaming PC that also hasn’t been given a dose of RGB lighting, because it’s simply launched a brand new vertical GPU mount with a strip of customizable shade throughout the underside of it. Not solely that, however the Antec Shift ARGB vertical graphics card adapter is designed to work with all normal ATX, E-ATX and mATX PC case designs, whether or not they’re made by Antec or not.
The thought of a common vertical GPU mount isn’t new, and we’ve already seen related designs from a number of the finest PC case producers on the market, together with Cooler Grasp and Fractal Design. Nevertheless, Antec has gone all out with the design of the Shift ARGB, producing it in each black and white variations, and with that aforementioned flash of RGB lighting.
The latter options addressable RGB (ARGB) LEDs that may be managed through your motherboard software program, hooking as much as a 3-pin header. Alternatively, you may as well join it to an ARGB hub, when you have one.
In the meantime, you’ll be able to regulate the size and width of the bracket through thumbscrews, so it matches your case. Antec says that it’s going to slot in all normal E-ATX and ATX PC circumstances, together with designs which have a totally open enlargement slot space within the again, in addition to normal ones which have a small barrier between every slot’s blanking panel. Antec says the mount can deal with graphics playing cards of any size as much as three slots extensive, and states that it’s even suitable with the mighty Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090.
You can even match the Antec Shift ARGB into an mATX case, so long as it has room for at the very least 4 enlargement slots. Nevertheless, Antec notes that you could be must take away your case’s exhaust fan to make room for it, and that becoming it may additionally cut back your CPU cooler clearance to 70mm.
A PCIe 4.0 riser is included, that means you’ll have the ability to run any present GPU with full bandwidth.
Some older vertical GPU mounts solely got here with PCIe 3.0 risers, which brought on issues should you linked them to a motherboard with PCIe 4.0 enabled, that means you needed to run them at PCIe 3.0 speeds. You might find yourself having to do the identical with this bracket as soon as the primary PCIe 5.0 graphics playing cards begin showing.
This frill-laden vertical GPU mount isn’t low-cost, although. The Antec Shift ARGB worth is $102 (£77.29), so that you’re going to have to essentially need to flip your graphics card on its facet with a strip of lighting earlier than you hand over your cash. Additionally, whereas it is perhaps tempting to indicate off your fancy graphics card on its facet behind a tempered glass panel, doing so can severely limit airflow, as there’s little room for cool air to get to the followers earlier than it’s pushed by means of the heatsink.
You’ll be a lot better off utilizing a mesh panel that may give your GPU room to breathe, or at the very least ensuring your case leaves a decent-sized hole between your graphics card and a stable panel.
In case you’re pondering of placing collectively a brand new RGB system, take a look at our information on easy methods to set up RGB lighting, in addition to our function on easy methods to construct a gaming PC, the place we information you thru each step of the method.
