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This looks like a Basic Bitch® office workstation. Surely you could put the same graphics card in a price-comparable gaming rig without having to resort to this...
Most likely. I "reassigned" an old work Dell Optiplex to play about with Linux a few years back, and it didn't like whatever onboard graphics chipset was on the board. I bought an inexpensive GeForce card... not realising that it would end up looking like this bad boi, and that I had to buy a low-profile card.
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Imagine if the graphics card's PCB component legs, as well as the soldering, accidentally touches the metal case if something or someone abruptly moves the PC case while it's turned on... With the case directly grounded/going to neutral or, even worse, plugged in US power outlets with reversed pins (so 110 volts now runs through the metal case, ready to find circuit with the secondary voltages running through the graphics card's PBC trails).
Best case scenario is the user's fingers discharging accumulated amounts of static energy when they touch the case while also touching some card's circuitry.
3-prong plugs (which computers use) have never been possible to insert upside down, and 2-prong plugs have been required to be polarized (one blade longer than the other, so impossible to insert upside down) since 1962. Aside from this, all voltage rails in a computer are electrically isolated from both sides of the mains. Most connect their 0V rail to the ground pin of the wall outlet, but there is no path from the AC lines to the DC. Touching a PC case has a 0% chance of electrocuting you.
Regarding the graphics card, one side is covered by the fan shroud and the other by the backplate. No part of the bare PCB is exposed to the chassis. Even if it was, there is more than enough clearance to keep anything from shorting out, and if there isn't, a piece of foam is all it takes to fix that.
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