New case or another 6950

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Have about £200...shall I get a full tower... As I think think may get cramped inside my fractal r3 quite soon.

Or shall I get another 2gb 6950... Bettering my eyefinity setup.
 
Depends what you want out of it. Better performance then get a second 6950. However I would opt for a decent full tower case or one with good cooling and room for what I need. The card will depreciate much faster than the case. Unless you scratch and damage your case often :)

Once you got a good case you'll be able to reuse it for all your upgrades and builds.
 
Depends what you want out of it. Better performance then get a second 6950. However I would opt for a decent full tower case or one with good cooling and room for what I need. The card will depreciate much faster than the case. Unless you scratch and damage your case often :)

Once you got a good case you'll be able to reuse it for all your upgrades and builds.

Hmmm I,need to thnk about it.. Though I do agree I can keep reusing my tower. What full tower case would you recommend. I have £200 but I dnt wanna spend all of it on just a case unless it's a VERY good case.
 
HAF X! :D i want one myself and i haven't heard anything but great reviews and thoughts about it :)

its comes with a 230mm intake fan and a 200mm top fan and i think 140 rear fan, not sure on the last one tho and its £135 :)
 
Great price.. I was looking at the corsair 800d... It looks great but I cnt justify paying that kind of money. So i moved onto the silvstone raven 2 .. Which looks great and I like how everything is turned on on the side. Any reason for the HAF X?
 
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they are amazing at air cooling and house large fans to shift loads of air, it also comes with a gpu air duct that covers the rear of the gpus and a 120mm fan can be mounted inside, it can also house the XL atx boards as well as large psu's gpu's and can mount a 360 rad at the top

imo i would go HAF X as its cheaper than most full tower cases and there good for cooling and space, im getting one when i have the money :)
 
What full tower case would you recommend. I have £200 but I dnt wanna spend all of it on just a case unless it's a VERY good case.

Well it depends on what you want from the case. Lian Li and Silverstone cases are very nice and well made.

Are your temps high? Need more space for hard drives? (Doubt it at these prices :D) or is it just that the second 6950 is going to take up lots of room?

You haven't yet said why, if it's for room and you don't want to spend much on the case then the HAF like beasty recommended is a good case.

Although I just seen the prices and the RV02 isn't as expensive as I thought it'd be. Personally I don't like the non standard way of mounting the motherboard.
 
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Well it depends on what you want from the case. Lian Li and Silverstone cases are very nice and well made.

Are your temps high? Need more space for hard drives? (Doubt it at these prices :D) or is it just that the second 6950 is going to take up lots of room?

You haven't yet said why, if it's for room and you don't want to spend much on the case then the HAF like beasty recommended is a good case.

Well.. ATM... I have a fractal r3 case with my mobo am and phenom Cpu and HIS 6950 gpu.

I have on order though...a new buid.. i5 2500k.. Asrock z68 extreme 4 mobo... Corsair ssd and antec kuhler 920. Obviously I'll be bring over my 3 hard drives and graphics card...

I intend to do some (first timer) and at one point get a second graphics. With my case though.. I moved my current gpu to the second pcie slot and here was hardly any gap between that and the power unit. So my guess is that ATM a second one would get heated quite quickly.
 
Does the PSU block the fan of the 6950?
Fractal R3 is quite small for large sized components. The XL would probably solve that issue of blocking the gpu fan. But it's price is nearing the HAF and Raven. With dual cards the Raven is quite good at cooling even on low speed.

If you're getting a new build whats happening to the AMD cpu and board. If you can hawk it with someone then you'd have to spend less on the case.
 
My partner wants a computer so I'm probably gonna keep it. Like I said £200 I have to spend but mst seem to be cheaper bar the corsair one I was interested in.

It doesn't block but there's hardly any gap at all. Being as I'm doing a new build I may aswell go for a case.. I have to admit the HAF X looks quite ugly.. I'd rather go for the raven. Have been looking at the NZXT phantom too which looks quite nice.
 
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