What GfX Card to buy?

[Russu_cs16]

Hello all...
Well yes today my Sapphire 5850 unfortunately died
It is time for new GPU...
Basically i got mroe or less 3 choices...

MSI GTX 470 TwinFrozr II
XFX ATI Radeon 6850 Black Edition
Asus GTX 460 DirectCU TOP
MSI ATI Radeon 5850 TwinFrozr II

Well these are kind of in my budget...
And I might push to this :
XFX ATI Radeon 6870

But there is a small dilema
I got CM Storm Scout...I'm not sure if i can fit 6870 because i hardly fitted my old 5850...

is the GTX 470 as big as 5850 or 6850?

Maybe some advice can be give to me about these...
Experiences and things like that

 

[Cleeecooo]

I THINK the 470 is longer than the 5850.
Id go for the 6850 black edition or try seeing if the 6870 fits.
If the 470 fits go for it

 

[Russu_cs16]

Any ideas of the length of 470 and 6870?

EDIT: 5850 is 240mm
470 is 243mm

3mm won't hurt i guess

So it's better to get 470 than 6850 right?

 

[Shaolin Chicken]

The GTX 470 fits no problem in a storm scout.
I have one sat in my storm scout at the moment.

The max graphic card length for the storm scout is about 10.5 inches.
Hope this helps

 

[tommybhoy]

today my Sapphire 5850 unfortunately died

Sapphires carry a 2 year warranty. Surely you will be rma'ing it and save yourself a fortune?

 

[Marvin]

The thing to bear in mind with the Nvidia cards is that the power connectors are on the top, so they can actually be a tad longer in most cases, without issue.

 

[Sayso]

so are the 6950s

 

[Russu_cs16]

Hmmm thanks for the infos...
GTX 470 has the connections on top at least so it would fit no problem

About RMAing the card...well I live quite far off the UK or Europe for this matter...Malta is far away from allthese things and the thing is that there is no partner or Distributor of SApphire.

I think it would be the pain in the arse to send the card and then wait for it for god knows how much...

NOt sure about it....ANy of you RMAed GPU's? wanted to know how long they decide to send youa new one and things like that.