I went down a different route to deal with the bend near the Pcie connectors, worked extremely well for me.
I have 3 x Titan X in 3 way SLI. Previous to this mod the temps on Valley instantly spiked to 80°+ instantly and idle was at 50°.
Now idle is at 30-38° and temps under load between 55-70° (remember this is 3 way stacked SLI)
It took me 3 FULL days and 7 or 8 tear outs and tests to get this solution so I'm still not a pleased and happy customer that's for sure.