“They even went as far as cutting vents into the PCI slot brackets to reduce weight. I weighed one in at .1 ounces while a standard bracket weighs .5 ounces. That’s a difference of 2.8lbs by simply cutting vents into the slot brackets”

First, the actual fact why slots are vented is simply ventilation, not weight reduction. Lian-Li and Silverstone, for two, have been doing this exact same thing to their slot covers and is always promoted by them as being done to assist ventilation, not weight reduction.

Also, your math is horribly wrong. It’s not a reduction of 2.8lbs as you said, but a reduction of 2.8 ounces. Here’s the math—-regular slot cover 0.5oz, vented slot cover 0.1oz, for a difference of 0.4oz per slot cover. Multiply 0.4oz per cover times 7 slot covers and you come up with 2.8 ounces, not pounds.

You cannot get a pound multiplying four-tenths of an ounce times seven (remember, there are 16oz in a pound)……you’d have to have at 40 slot covers to achieve a single pound of weight reduction, and a whole 112 slot covers to get to your reputed 2.8 pound weight reduction…..don’t know where they put all 112 slot covers, do you?

And that’s why the covers were NOT slotted or vented for weight reduction…..simply saving a couple of ounces is not worth the work. But to improve ventilation through the case, now that’s worth the extra machining and work to vent the covers.

Cheers!