Card/case sizes?

[thegoonden]

I see lots of threads on the subject of "will $CARD fit in $CASE?".

I cannot help but wonder (and would like it confirmed or denied by the heregathered wisemen)..........isn't the distance between the back panel and HD bays, or some such dimension, laid out in the ATX specs?
Isn't that exactly WHY the 8800GTX, for example, only JUST fits most normal ATX cases, ie, it's form factor is built to spec?


Barking up the wrong tree?
Just Barking?

 

[suitcase]

Well you won't find a graphics card on this site that won't fit in an atx case, no. The problem some people run into is there graphics card being too close to the sata / ide cables and ports of their hard drives... usually.

Basically it's only a problem when you bring other bits of hardware into the equation- if you just had the graphics card and the case, it would fit in fine.

 

[Ace Modder]

correct, its about the dodgy motherboard lay out more than the case size

 

[Kyo Daikun]

Hmm, I wanted to buy a lian li b25 but a reviewer mentioned that a 8800 would only fit if you but the hard disk rack in sideways, surely case manufacturers should look at the size of the biggest cards and make sure there is plenty of room for people to get all their components in.

 

[eyetrip]

Hmm, I wanted to buy a lian li b25 but a reviewer mentioned that a 8800 would only fit if you but the hard disk rack in sideways, surely case manufacturers should look at the size of the biggest cards and make sure there is plenty of room for people to get all their components in.

Well, cards have been getting larger.... when I got my case, there were no cards big enough for drives to really be a problem.

Now I can not get GTX 200 cards, or 4870 X2 because the drive rack would be in the way.

Largest card I managed to fit was a 8800GTX, and even that required a slight mod of the drive rack.

 

[Kyo Daikun]

Yeah I realise the cards are getting bigger but the b25 came out last year and the 8800 was already well out so I dont see the reason

 

[Popov]

You are correct about minimum sizes etc but it seems some case manufacturers take things to the minimum limit and card manufacturers to the maximum. For my own case with an 8800gtx I had to do some creative rearanging of hard drives to fit the card in my lian li case. By the time you plug power cables etc in things are mighty tight and somewhat messy, not to mention the m/b layout being such that the card covers the exact area where the SATA cables plug in, it sure isn't pretty.