Noooooooo!!!!!

Doc Rob

Doc Rob

Doc Rob

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So, I was going to either buy or build a new PC, but after a great deal of thought and advice from some lovely people on here, I decided to try swapping out my graphics card first, to see whether this by itself would give me a big enough performance boost to tide me over for a while.

I arrive home today and the card's here. So I update my drivers, remove the old card, wrestle the new one past a large number of cables... and discover that it is, by a centimetre or so, too bloody long to fit in my Antec 300 case. :mad:

Honestly not sure what my next step should be. Logically I have three options:

1. Send the card back for a refund
2. Get a bigger case and transfer everything over
3. Buy the remaining components and build a new PC.

Option 1 gets me nowhere. Option 2 means I get all the hassle of the new build for relatively little return. This leaves option 3... but I had convinced myself I didn't need a complete new rig right now, and I'll need to pay out a further £1200 or so.

Bad words (I posted a mild swear word meaning 'testicles' but the swear filter removed it).
 
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What are your current components? If decent I would get a new case. Never did like the Antec 300 myself. Alternatively, like Stulid suggests, you could always mod the 300.
 
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard
Intel Core i7 920 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - OC to 3.4GHz
Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
GeIL 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz
Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache
Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter
Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler
Antec 300 Three Hundred Case
 
Actually a fourth option has just occurred to me - get a different make of card. I went for the Gigabyte version - the MSI looks to be significantly shorter.
 
Buy a new case, doesn't take long to rebuild a PC!

That's a much better option than messing around returning the card etc.
 
stulid said:
Dremel time.
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This idea had not occurred to me. Could work - if I cut away part of the drive bay rack, which is what the card is getting stuck on.

Don't own a Dremel. Feel a trip to B&Q coming on.

What's more, I can try it before buying a new case.
 
It looks like the lower hdd cage is riveted in. If so drill out the rivets. Make sure you cover the motherboard etc first though. You don't want any swarf or metal dust going in any slots or over the board. Even better, take everything out first.
 
Removed the MB. Cut out a section of the drive bays. Replaced everything. Can't recall how exactly things were plugged in - should my primary HD should be plugged into the SATA or GSATA port on the MB?
 
If you're going to have to remove components from the case to dremel it (and you really should, as pastymuncher said a stray metal shaving can really ruin your day if it shorts something important), why not go for a new case anyway? You will be able to use your new GPU, you will have a shiny new case to look at and when the time comes to do a full update you will already have the case so it'll be a little less on your future upgrade bill.

That's what I would do - it's Christmas so why not treat yourself to a new shiny PC (albeit with your existing components inside, but the outside will be new and shiny!)? :)
 
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