HP Z820 PCI Retainer, how to make a 4060 Ti fit, with the power connector on the side

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I am trying to fit a 4060 Ti inside a Z820

This is working right now without the retainer.

This is a 165 W card. I also have another GPU two slots below it, and 2 other minor cards (network, NVME)

The 4060 Ti has a power connector on the side, pointing to the retainer. 

ant-HP-Z820-Workstation# nvidia-smi
Tue Jul 30 17:51:16 2024
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 545.29.06 Driver Version: 545.29.06 CUDA Version: 12.3 |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+======================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Off | 00000000:05:00.0 On | N/A |
| 0% 40C P8 8W / 165W | 2776MiB / 16380MiB | 1% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 1 NVIDIA RTX A2000 Off | 00000000:06:00.0 Off | Off |
| 30% 46C P8 12W / 70W | 1044MiB / 6138MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

I already tried a U adapter for the 8 pin connector, but it's still not enough.

Someone elsewhere suggested that the plastic shell is removable.

It seems possible to remove it, but it would also remove the green handle that snaps into the frame of the workstation.

As this is a only 25€ used part that is easy to source, I was thinking of getting one and Dremel into it until it has the clearance for the power connector.

Any thought ?

Also the U turn adapter could be made a little thinner, but I have not measured it to see if I can make it thinner somehow.

Maybe I should first load a 3d model of those in CAD and see how they interact