I know you can get the PCI-E riser cables easy enough, but how do you go about mounting that in a traditional case, what with the PCI brackets at the rear all being vertical? Is there some kind of bracket you can get to have it vertical, or would this involve metal work to actually get it set-up properly?
PCI-E riser set-up in normal case?
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Unless the case is specifically designed for it you are looking at metalwork yes
Are there ANY normal cases designed with this in mind, apart from the obvious ones with the horizontal flat motherboard trays? I recall seeing cases with a single PCI slot, but not a dual required for a GPU. I don't think there's a single case on the market that offers this?
Mastercase series has replacement brackets for vertical GPU. It might be their 'community designed' one and not sure when it will be release.
There also is the high end Phanteks Enthoo Elite (?) shown at Computex that also has this option, pretty expensive though.
https://youtu.be/_ADK_V8woVE 2:04
There also is the high end Phanteks Enthoo Elite (?) shown at Computex that also has this option, pretty expensive though.
https://youtu.be/_ADK_V8woVE 2:04
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I hadn't seen that for the Mastercase. Is there any more info about that? Not something I can find any news about.
I have found a pic of this Deepcool Genome case that does EXACTLY what I had in mind, but the case itself is not what I'm looking for (don't think it's even available in UK anyway), as it has a crazy inbuilt water-cooling thing going on with a built-in reservoir up front. The GPU solution is spot on though.
I have found a pic of this Deepcool Genome case that does EXACTLY what I had in mind, but the case itself is not what I'm looking for (don't think it's even available in UK anyway), as it has a crazy inbuilt water-cooling thing going on with a built-in reservoir up front. The GPU solution is spot on though.
There is not much mentioned about the Mastercase bracket, I've just seen it here and there from looking at builds.
I'm not too keen on the deepcool case, it is unnecessarily close to the side panel, and the GPU will be starved for air, makes sense if it is watercooled. Also cool to have one card in horizontal position, and one in vertical for SLI/xfire.
I'm not too keen on the deepcool case, it is unnecessarily close to the side panel, and the GPU will be starved for air, makes sense if it is watercooled. Also cool to have one card in horizontal position, and one in vertical for SLI/xfire.
