Shuttle build help...

[PeeJ]

After just returning from I-Series with my beast of a watercooled PC, I have decided that its too big, weildy, inconvinient and expensive to take to any more. So, I've ordered a shuttle. Specificly the Shuttle SX58H7.

Now I've ordered most of the parts however, I was wondering if anyone knows what the top end Graphics card is that I can fit into it. The maximum dimensions are apparently 267mm x 98mm x 18mm. Although the PSU is only 500Watts its 80% efficiencey uarenteed and me housemates 550Watt PSU claims that it can run 2 X 295 GTX's (despite the 295 GTX claiming that you need a 550Watt PSU just to run 1 of them).

Any Suggestions or help is welcome but I am looking more towards getting a Single Card with a dual GPU as I dont think that putting 2 single cards in SLi / Corssfire will allow enough airflow for the inner card.

 

[jigger]

The PSU will probably run two 295's but I dont think they would fit.

I dont know if the latest dual cards would fit but it might be worth running something cheap until ATI's new cards are out.

 

[melbourne720]

Shuttle website specifically mentions 4870 and 260 - might be a good place to start. 4890 is probably an option too.

Dual cards is probably out of the question if you want to game.

 

[PeeJ]

Yeah, what I was trying to get accross in my first post was that i dont want 2 cards, but rather something like a 260 or 295, where theres 2 gpu's on the one card. I'll wait for it to turn up and test it out with my fried 295 to see if it fits, if not ill got for a 260 probably. not sure how the 4890 stacks up to the 260 though, anyone got any idea?

 

[TheRealDeal]

The 4890 is faster than the gtx260 its more on par with the gtx275.