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Graphics Card and Motherboard Question

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Hello fellow OcUk forum members. I have a few things i need you more experienced users to help me with. First off, I need a new graphics card. My HD4770 is just awful these days. Now i'm not the kinda of person that plays super demanding games, I only really play 2, WoW and SC2.

I am looking for a graphics card that will be compatable with my motherboard. But one thing does worry me, since my motherboard is only a microATX board, I'm concerned that if i get a new graphics card it may block my SATA ports on the motherboard, Space isn't an issue when it comes to graphics cards for me since i have my rig inside a nice Zalman Z9 plus, but I'm worried if i would block those ports which obviously we all need to use to connect the Harddrive and Cd drive to.

My motherboard is this
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-278-GI

And like i said I'm only playing WoW and SC2, nothing much else.
Could you guys recomend me a card that would fit on my board, one that's compatable and wont block those SATA ports.

My budget is around £150 for the card.

Thanks for reading.
- Rox
 
Also if it's any use my full specs are here:

Zalman Z9 plus case
XFX Core edition 650W PSU
Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G microATX DDR3 Motherboard
AMD Phenom II x4 Quad Core @ 3.40GHz
GieL Dual-Chanl. 4GB DDR3 RAM @ 1600MHz
Currently running an ATi Radeon HD4770 GPU
 
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