i have it In a box naked without any protection for like a month i previously took it out a blue grocery bag thats see through i had it in there for 6 to 7 days and there is some damage on the PCIe idk if its minor or not as you can see in the image i also got it used because its a GTX 1650 and those dont exist on Amazon etc. and I tested it with a dual SATA connectors to 6 pin btw its an OC card they were female so I plugged in female Sata cable into the SSD the pc kept running and closing again and again and it displayed green or red i think. and i just plugged in the 6 pin from the dual SATA cable and ye the pc kept running but no display but the led thing displayed blue or white i kinda don't remember that was like a month i go since i ever got the GPU keep in mind a i used an active converter HDMI to VGA because my montire 1080p and vga ancient i know. i didn't suspect because the monitor normally displays no VGA when no VGA cable is connected. so the GPU probably had not enough power to do anything because the psu was 290watt