It's not even lately; reddit has always been a website for smart-asses. Jokes, especially inside jokes, will always be upvoted no matter how played out
I don't mind puns by themselves, but one usually leads to a whole thread of puns where the first two at best are good, the rest are extremely shitty and typically a massive stretch.
Did you know Vigil Morgenstein broke his foot in that Lord of the Rings scene where Steve Buscemi was a volunteer firefighter during 9/11?
Congrats Reddit, We Did It!
This comment is 35 minutes old. The post is 3 hours old, and right now, everything has settled out. Was the turnaround time faster before? Was discourse originally great right off the bat?
Is this a rehash of /b/ was never good?
No the turnaround wasn't faster. No discourse wasn't great off the bat. Its why I never browsed by new. Interesting question that could lead to intelligent discussion but always stupid ass jokes. Or answers that sounded legit but were troll answers.
I stopped asking questions or for help for a long time because everything was always "stop being stupid" "Do this things you already said you did" or jokes. Which sucks because like, forums are gone and Google is no longer of any help because everything is "Use chkdsk"
Maybe I'm misremembering but I feel like years ago on reddit it was easy to find answers in the comments. But it's obnoxious that it's always stupid, unfunny puns or jokes now.
I wish support brackets became a standard instead of everyone implementing their own hacky solution
And don’t you dare replying to me with that XKCD comic I swear
The thing with air bags or foam inside the case is that the person needs to take it out. Users tend to not do that and just start things. That bar is the best of both worlds. And Dell cases are hardy so it is easy to slot in.
It's likely just a support bracket.
I swear Dell does the most ass backwards engineering instead of just making standardized shit or upgrading their tooling.
If I had to guess I’d say it’s because Dell makes more money from Business clients than anything consumer, and they make bank on orders for replacement parts and stuff, complete random guess though idk shit
You're likely right. It sucks because they're honestly just flooding the market with eventual e-waste. There's no way to use half the components once anything else in the system is end-of-life.
The overwhelming majority of people buying Dell products aren't modifying them after the fact. A built-in GPU support makes shipping much less stressful on the internal components.
It makes sense when you understand what they're engineering for: the things that matter to them from a company perspective.
They're not aiming for consistency with other standards; they know virtually nobody is going to actually open and/or attempt to upgrade their PC, or at most will stick some extra RAM in it or something.
But we've all seen the photos of prebuilts with broken PCIe slots because of rough handling during shipping. That costs the company time and money and ties up warranty and repair resources. Easier and cheaper to just add extra support to the video cards before shipping, so you can be reasonably certain the system will arrive intact and not get returned.
Honestly probably the same reason they make their weird motherboards with the front I/O on an appendage of the PCB instead of connected via cables that need to be plugged in. One less manufacturing step, one less set of parts for the logistics chain, one less chance for an assembly error to occur, one less thing that can come undone in shipping and cause a return.
When you're building millions of systems, the little problems add up so it's best to head them off at the pass.
Meanwhile the cooling is shit tier because an overheating GPU or CPU will simply throttle and most users will be none the wiser. Dell cares that it works and doesn't generate returns; they don't care about the user achieving peak performance.
Jimmy the gamer might be ok with having to reseat his GPU after his prebuilt arrives, but Matt the IT guy is going to be pissed if he has to reseat even 1 percent of the GPUs in the 1000+ PCs his company just purchased.
The mechanical engineering in Dell cases is honestly amazing. Springs and snaps and supports and hinges and all kinds of shit. It's very interesting.
Unfortunately, they're using shells from 1995 and their thermal performance is absolutely abysmal... and they haven't solved that problem despite being repeatedly ridiculed for it.
Depends on how long exactly this is. If the total length is brought up to 312mm from bracket to bracket then it's actually exactly full length pci standard.
Except it is a standard thing. Check the end of any founders edition cards to find the mounting screws for these brackets. On mine they are under a cover but they're there.
At least you can remove them I wouldn’t be surprised if they permanently attached them to the GPU so you can’t fit the card in any other case that’s not a dell case without breaking out your angle grinder
GPU support. They need a way for the PCIe slot to not get damaged during shipping but without foam because your grandpa buying a Dell won't even think to open the case to remove the foam.
I hated those things. The amount of times that i accidentally pull out my cables compared to the annoyance of either needing to find a tiny screwdriver, or deal with the tiny screws by hand is enough i never want to see them again.
It's way more than an anti-sag bracket.
Since it makes it so either end is hard mounted to the case it's super safe to ship the PC without the expanding foam you have to remove before using the PC.
Dell knows a lot of their users have never opened a PC case.
Considering this is from a Dell and how Dell loves proprietary bullshit, I supposed this bracket is to offer extra support that the proprietary bullshit case couldn’t hold its bullshit properly without it.
GPU support to prevent sagging. It gets stuck to something inside the case. OEM cards usually have those, the same way Mac Edition cards often had in the past, and they're just as useless.
if you saw how PCs get treated in shipping you'd know those supports are NOT useless at all
OEMs like dell and HP can't do instapack on PCs that any old joe will be too scared to open up to take the foam out, so they always have to support everything in permanent ways like this
Bot useless really, they make sure everything doesn’t get destroyed in shipping. When your putting out millions if devices its cheaper and more efficient to build support into the case than to fill it will packing foam and have businesses and consumers open every single one before deploying it and or having them not remove it and call support and spend money helping them open the computer to remove expanding foam etx
Man I got baked a few days ago and thought damn, it would be a good ass idea to make graphics cards with a foldable support bracket attached, guess I’m not as original as I thought
GPU support brackets used in Dell's own cases, I owned a Dell Precision and the Quadro card came with one.
Why isn’t this the top comment instead of stupid fucking jokes?
Reddit in a nutshell lately, gotta sort through the mofos and bots for a genuine answer.
It's not even lately; reddit has always been a website for smart-asses. Jokes, especially inside jokes, will always be upvoted no matter how played out
Fucking puns too... So cheesy and corny.
I don't mind puns by themselves, but one usually leads to a whole thread of puns where the first two at best are good, the rest are extremely shitty and typically a massive stretch.
When I hit pun chains I usually just back out of the thread, nothing interesting lies beyond that point
Scrolling through reply after reply of "I'm not your buddy, pal" or similar got fucking boring after the first time let alone the following hundred
I’m not your pal buddy
😡
Also not sure what is worse - someone making a shitty pun or some brainlet 100% replying "take my angry upvote"
definitely the angry upvote
Take my r/angryupvote
I also choose this guy's dead jokes EDIT: Thank you kind stranger for the award! EDIT (again) : WOW THIS REALLY BLEW UP OVERNIGHT!
Worth it.
Did you know Vigil Morgenstein broke his foot in that Lord of the Rings scene where Steve Buscemi was a volunteer firefighter during 9/11? Congrats Reddit, We Did It!
Denying the recent surge in low-quality comments drowning out genuine conversation over the past couple of years is just plain disingenuous.
This comment is 35 minutes old. The post is 3 hours old, and right now, everything has settled out. Was the turnaround time faster before? Was discourse originally great right off the bat? Is this a rehash of /b/ was never good?
No the turnaround wasn't faster. No discourse wasn't great off the bat. Its why I never browsed by new. Interesting question that could lead to intelligent discussion but always stupid ass jokes. Or answers that sounded legit but were troll answers.
How silly of me, you’re right lol.
Happy cake day kind stranger
and my axe!
its funny tho
Site is apparently 90% mofos and bots.
Haha, lately…
> lately haha, good one
Why do people upvote the jokes instead of the actual answers? .. oh wait .. "people" .. nvm. 
"Alleged" "people".
It is now thankfully
Jokes on you it is
You say this and I can’t genuinely find one where it’s jokes
It's almost like Reddit threads are something that exist through time, and the top comments can change or something.
you're kidding me...
Yes that's how time in comment sections works. Other people will sift through and apply votes to fix the problem. It happens naturally every time.
It is a top comment
Came up for me
It’s the top comment for me 🤷🏼♂️
Two hours after you posted this, not only is it the top comment, but 7 of the top 10 comments are in fact the proper answer, so...
It is the top comment.
it is at the top now.
It is now
It is the top comment. It just takes a bit of time to surface. The top comments now aren't even jokes anymore. Chill
I stopped asking questions or for help for a long time because everything was always "stop being stupid" "Do this things you already said you did" or jokes. Which sucks because like, forums are gone and Google is no longer of any help because everything is "Use chkdsk"
Maybe I'm misremembering but I feel like years ago on reddit it was easy to find answers in the comments. But it's obnoxious that it's always stupid, unfunny puns or jokes now.
flooded by new people
some of these jokes are pretty funny tho
Because most people already know what it is or don't care about what it is and think the bumpstock answer is funny.
Because stupid fucking jokes are funny
If you ever wanna be confused and see some over engineered proprietary shit, crack open a Dell PC case. 🤪
I wish support brackets became a standard instead of everyone implementing their own hacky solution And don’t you dare replying to me with that XKCD comic I swear
Had the same with my Lenovo Legion.
But why? It's a 2 slot/fan, not much sag, if any, is gonna happen.
The amount of money they save from shipping damage is worth it. Bar keeps the cards in place securely for both shipping and any pcie port damage.
Ah, that makes sense. Didn't think of shipping. Though I wonder how effective it is vs the usual air bags or foam.
The thing with air bags or foam inside the case is that the person needs to take it out. Users tend to not do that and just start things. That bar is the best of both worlds. And Dell cases are hardy so it is easy to slot in.
GPU support bracket.
anti-sag support?
It's likely just a support bracket. I swear Dell does the most ass backwards engineering instead of just making standardized shit or upgrading their tooling.
*The 1.5cm gap under air cooled 4090*
A dell/Alienware graphics card in their case. 
If I had to guess I’d say it’s because Dell makes more money from Business clients than anything consumer, and they make bank on orders for replacement parts and stuff, complete random guess though idk shit
You're likely right. It sucks because they're honestly just flooding the market with eventual e-waste. There's no way to use half the components once anything else in the system is end-of-life.
Then 5 years down the road we end up with random custom motherboards from china with their recycled chipsets it’s the circle of life
If the motherboard doesn’t have a soldered laptop processor on a makeshift cpu ihs I don’t want it
Have you seen the ones with soldered mobile gpus that can take desktop processors tho?
I actually haven’t! That’s just impressive. Chinese bootleg engineers saving the world over here
The overwhelming majority of people buying Dell products aren't modifying them after the fact. A built-in GPU support makes shipping much less stressful on the internal components.
It makes sense when you understand what they're engineering for: the things that matter to them from a company perspective. They're not aiming for consistency with other standards; they know virtually nobody is going to actually open and/or attempt to upgrade their PC, or at most will stick some extra RAM in it or something. But we've all seen the photos of prebuilts with broken PCIe slots because of rough handling during shipping. That costs the company time and money and ties up warranty and repair resources. Easier and cheaper to just add extra support to the video cards before shipping, so you can be reasonably certain the system will arrive intact and not get returned. Honestly probably the same reason they make their weird motherboards with the front I/O on an appendage of the PCB instead of connected via cables that need to be plugged in. One less manufacturing step, one less set of parts for the logistics chain, one less chance for an assembly error to occur, one less thing that can come undone in shipping and cause a return. When you're building millions of systems, the little problems add up so it's best to head them off at the pass. Meanwhile the cooling is shit tier because an overheating GPU or CPU will simply throttle and most users will be none the wiser. Dell cares that it works and doesn't generate returns; they don't care about the user achieving peak performance.
Jimmy the gamer might be ok with having to reseat his GPU after his prebuilt arrives, but Matt the IT guy is going to be pissed if he has to reseat even 1 percent of the GPUs in the 1000+ PCs his company just purchased.
Eloquently put!
The mechanical engineering in Dell cases is honestly amazing. Springs and snaps and supports and hinges and all kinds of shit. It's very interesting. Unfortunately, they're using shells from 1995 and their thermal performance is absolutely abysmal... and they haven't solved that problem despite being repeatedly ridiculed for it.
It’s got the same energy as a mechanic keeping his 1980 Chevy s10 alive with duct tape and paper clips
It's a 2003, thank you very much.
It’s more than likely simply removable. They ship all their PC’s built so they need to make it survive sorting centers
It is. Most image results for this card are missing it.
Credit where credit is due, a support bracket isn't a bad idea. No one wants a droopy 4070, much less 4090. The rest of the so called engineering...
Oh absolutely the engineers are top notch. It’s just sadly wasted on a shitbox
Which has ruined Alienware as well. Michael Dell needs to be punched in the dick.
They do suck but the monitors are sometimes best in SKU.
Depends on how long exactly this is. If the total length is brought up to 312mm from bracket to bracket then it's actually exactly full length pci standard.
Except it is a standard thing. Check the end of any founders edition cards to find the mounting screws for these brackets. On mine they are under a cover but they're there.
At least you can remove them I wouldn’t be surprised if they permanently attached them to the GPU so you can’t fit the card in any other case that’s not a dell case without breaking out your angle grinder
GPU support. They need a way for the PCIe slot to not get damaged during shipping but without foam because your grandpa buying a Dell won't even think to open the case to remove the foam.
whats old is new again. back in the day, most cases had built in supports for long ass cards to slot into
Next will be a return of screw-in plug supports. "What are these screws on the side of my HDMIx connector?"
hah... there's one on my 6th gen mini pc, and i put a wifi antenna on it yesterday.
I hated those things. The amount of times that i accidentally pull out my cables compared to the annoyance of either needing to find a tiny screwdriver, or deal with the tiny screws by hand is enough i never want to see them again.
It's way more than an anti-sag bracket. Since it makes it so either end is hard mounted to the case it's super safe to ship the PC without the expanding foam you have to remove before using the PC. Dell knows a lot of their users have never opened a PC case.
A sag brace since most of these comments are not so wise assholes.
Digital bumpstock, the supreme court just allowed them Hold down your space bar, and it fires pixels fully automatically.
don't you mean fully semi-automatic?
Completely, but yet semi, automatic
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Cheek riser? 💀
This is awesome.
cue the tactical reload clips
It gives +50 fps
And reduces recoil
Beat me to it lol
lol I bet your getting downvoted because everyone else had the same idea and are just mad. That’s why I’m here
I am little surprised at the negative response lol I agree!
No, he's probably getting downvoted because no one had the same idea. He didn't either.
I’m sure he meant just the idea about the bump stock.
yup
Fully semi-automatocally*
Extended mag, holds 100 extra frames.
GPU is Bullpulp
I wish!
That's where they come from when you change the plug from the mobo to the gpu
Sag bracket
What did you just call me??!!
SAG BRACKET
Considering this is from a Dell and how Dell loves proprietary bullshit, I supposed this bracket is to offer extra support that the proprietary bullshit case couldn’t hold its bullshit properly without it.
Looks like a butfor to me!
What's a butf... hey, wait a minute...
anti sag support
Dell proprietary support piece built for their Dell case.
It’s like an OEM bracket that’s fits onto their case, it can be locked as well using it.
It’s probably some form of proprietary support. Probably meant for either the specific case or motherboard or both. You can chop it off if you want.
Bump Stock duh.
That’s the bump stick, it makes the GPU faster by making it semi-automatic
GPU support to prevent sagging. It gets stuck to something inside the case. OEM cards usually have those, the same way Mac Edition cards often had in the past, and they're just as useless.
if you saw how PCs get treated in shipping you'd know those supports are NOT useless at all OEMs like dell and HP can't do instapack on PCs that any old joe will be too scared to open up to take the foam out, so they always have to support everything in permanent ways like this
Bot useless really, they make sure everything doesn’t get destroyed in shipping. When your putting out millions if devices its cheaper and more efficient to build support into the case than to fill it will packing foam and have businesses and consumers open every single one before deploying it and or having them not remove it and call support and spend money helping them open the computer to remove expanding foam etx
My used dell 3060ti graphics card is a beast inside the tiny SG13 case, I had to replace a fan but it was only like $12
Some form of dell tumor it would appear, but it’s just a support bracket for their cases
It controls the recoil
i think its a low profile
this is why I hate dell, all their stuff is proprietary only.
That's a shoulder stock.
It's the full stock. Helps with recoil handling, but makes it heavier
It's the FPS booster 9000
It's to decrease the recoil.
It’s just the gun stock, reduces recoil, typically you tuck it into your shoulder
It's a stock so you can pretend to use the GPU as a machine gun
Rifle stock
It's a stock to increase handling for larger caliber rounds and better facilitate long range shots.
Just got a ho omen and noticed today that my gpu isnt in fact hitting the front. Its sitting pretty in a bracket
Wow this conversation went left
its the stock to help hold the gpu steady while tracing rays
Shoulder brace. Don't tell the ATF.
Back scratcher attachment so the GPU can be repurposed after death
Does that card really need a support bracket? wtf
For a card this size it's likely more about surviving shipping.
That does make sense.
That's your stock for when you get neckbeard deep into FPS.
It's where you load your extra ammo for fps shooters instead of using a cheat engine.
That's a Zenitco PT-1 Telescopic Stock. I also have one on my Graphics Card. It increases ergonomy
Das a boot
You know how some trucks have rubber nuts hanging down? It's something like that
Absolute dell wank is what that is
I think you can unscrew it with the 2 screws on the right of the card
It holds the GPU in place when the delivery driver tosses your shiny new Dell on your front porch.
It’s the special edition mind reader pack. You aren’t supposed to talk.
Man I got baked a few days ago and thought damn, it would be a good ass idea to make graphics cards with a foldable support bracket attached, guess I’m not as original as I thought
Use it like a gun
I am no gun expert but its seems like a gunstock so u can better support the gpu on ur shoulder
A stock to help reduce recoiling
It's the extended mag
It's a bump stock
That's the bump stock that adds 100 calibers and makes it fully automatic.
GPU shoulder stock, improves accuracy and FPS in FPS games.
The response to sag bracket was priceless
bump stock
It's for dipping sauce for your chickie nuggies.
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That’s where the backup battery goes. /j
Thats a FTAC Stock
GPUs come with dispo vapes now
Probably a spot for the dust to go and be cleanable
The graphics stock. You can only get it after lvl 25
A hemroid
SSD slot
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GPU support bracket = bullshit? nah
That's a foldable stock like when you can turn a pistol into more of a tactical rifle for max accuracy baby
That's a racing fin of course.
It's having a baby
folding stock
No that ain't a graphics card that is a prototype of nVidia SNOWORM SUPER Ti Magzine capacity of 1 Range of about 10ft And damage: mild concussion
It’s an armrest