He went a little further than that for me and said he will send me standoffs.

My question is which screws do you use the standoffs on? Seems to me like the six around the GPU would be snugged down first. Can you bend the card with only the six screws around the GPU without using a lot of force with a jewelers screwdriver? There are two screws on the Video I/O side and three on the VReg side which I would guess these 5 are the ones you would use the standoffs on?