8800 and fitting issues? Will it fit?

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Snowblind

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Hey everyone,

I recently built a new rig to last me for another year or so (M2N-MX, 64bit X2 4600+, 2GB DDR2, etc...). I bought a 7900GT which was factory overclocked from BFG but the card was faulty when I got it and caused scaling artifacts to appear so I returned it.

Now however I am thinking of throwing in an extra £60 and getting myself an EVGA 8800GTS 320mb card to give me some dx10 functionality should I upgrade to Vista before I build another rig in a year or so.

The problem I have is that I've heard the 8800 cards are really big.

Does anyone know if an 8800GTS will fit on an ASUS M2N-MX motherboard inside an Antec 900 case?

If I buy it and it doesn't fit I'm a bit scuppered really and £200 for a dx10 card seems like a bargain to be honest.
 
It'll take up two back brackets and be quite cramped but you shouldn't have a problem. I didn't think it'd fit in my case but it did... just.
 
Snowblind said:
should I upgrade to Vista before I build another rig in a year or so.
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don't upgrade to Vista until at least SP1 or SP2 is in general release[ot]by then M$ will probably have got rid of most of the bugs, or even better switch to Linux[/ot]
 
Yeah, no problems fitting it mate... I have an 8800GTX and the same case as you do (they're brilliant aren't they? ;) )You’ll just have to remove the 3.5" upper tray for the GTX... don't know for the GTS...
 
Dambuster said:
Yeah, no problems fitting it mate... I have an 8800GTX and the same case as you do (they're brilliant aren't they? ;) )You’ll just have to remove the 3.5" upper tray for the GTX... don't know for the GTS...
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Awesome that's just what I wanted to hear :D .

Yeh the case is really good. I was surprised how quiet it is to be honest considering the fans in it. I might notch the case fans up to the medium setting to get it even cooler, although tbh my cpu is running at 35c atm which isn't too shabby :D .

Thanks for the help guys. I suppose if it doesn't fit I can always remove the extra 12cm fan casing from the back of the middle drive chasis on the case, that would probably work well.
 
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