New Gigabyte GTX 1080 arrived today and I was pleasantly surprised that my custom made backplate will fit very nicely. But I hit a snag Gigabyte in it's wisdom affixes the default backplate with two different screw sizes. But even that is not an issue as my backplate only needs 6 points of fixing which do match 6 screws on the default backplate. But these screws are tiny, 1.5 x 3mm and pass through the holes on my backplate. So I am looking at new screws or is there some other way to fix the backplate to the back of a card?
A) I would need tiny 4mm washers which would fit on the countersunk ledge or B) Larger washers, which I have, and longer screws, which I do not.
Some suguru to pack out the holes in your custom back plate? Chances are, you can get some that would colour match. However, I have no idea how suguru would act at temperature.
A couple of new bolts aren't expensive. Clicky, you've just got to make sure you get the right size bolt.
And I could buy the same size of screws that also fall through the existing holes. Ideally tiny washers would be the answer though I have sourced 2 sizes of screws and with the washers I have I maybe alright.
Screws have arrived but unfortunately the washers I have are too big or rather the centre hole is. Screw size is 1.6 and I think I need micro washers that are measured in BA but cannot convert so have not got a clue what size I should be looking for. I could of course join a model making forum for the answer but thought I would try here first.
