1. Motherboards usually have 5 holes for mounts.
2. They only ever give you enough stuff for 4 mount points.
3. The graphics card is right over the "middle" of the board, i.e., at 
the "flexpoint", where there is no support, if you put all the mounts on 
the corners.
4. First suggested fix for a card, and one sure fire way to destroy one, 
if it doesn't glitch obviously while using it, is, "seat the card, 
bending the boards slightly, thus risking a) the board breaking, or b) 
the screws attaching the card to the case "pulling out" the card, from 
its proper seating, on one end.

You would think someone would figure out this is enough of a problem 
that either a) they would provide something to brace the middle of the 
board, under these cards, or b) not make the cards so they could be 
pulled out by the retaining screws.

But, at least, so far, the graphics glitches (and one huge BSD) I was 
having recently have disappeared....

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