- Apr 12, 2014
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Hello everyone!
I will try to be as fast as possible since these issues bothers me for the past 3-4 months.I have been saving money and slowly upgraded my cpu/psu/ram/mobo from the older pc that I had but my graphics card was left to be upgraded last.Not that much after I upgraded the other parts, my graphics card started heating up,I changed the thermal paste from the gpu but I saw no changes.Now my pc boots up with a couple of noises but I see no signal from the screen so I guess the card is gone for good and I have to speed up my new graphics card purchase...
I already have a 7 years old Gigabyte 8600 gt without a fan,just a heatsink pipe..
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2515#ov
Of course as you understand after that sudden death I am in a tight budget but I am between these 3:
Asus R9 280 http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/R9280DC2T3GD5/specifications/
Asus R9 270X http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/R9270XDC2T2GD5/specifications/
Asus R9 270 http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/R9270XDC2T2GD5/specifications/
Since Asus,Gigabyte and Sapphire are the most cheap in my country I am aiming towards these three brands mainly. While R9 280 is my main aim above all those I recently realised that it might not fit in my case and the whole thread is about this.Will any of these 3 cards fit in a Thermaltake Armor Jr http://support.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?C=1433&ID=1440 ? My main aim is to chose size/money/performance wisely since I don't want to be buying a new case at this moment as I am already pushing my budget to buy 1 of those 3. I can't settle for any r7s heh
Here below is a picture taken of my pc's interior focusing at the PCI Express slots (old card removed):
http://oi61.tinypic.com/2eykrxl.jpg
Here comes the problem,the distances in this picture are:
A->B 1.5cm
A->C 27.5cm
C->D 1.5cm
A->D 29cm
I know for sure that the R9 270 is going to fit in there since in Asus' site it's 9.2 inches ~ 23cm so I know I at least can get the R9 270.But how about the other 2?
R9 270x is 10.7 inches ~27.2cm
R9 280 is 11.2 inches ~ 28.4cm
Even if they fit wouldn't that be too close to the front panel and that could cause increased heating?
I am sorry for the lengh of the post,any advice is welcome...
I will try to be as fast as possible since these issues bothers me for the past 3-4 months.I have been saving money and slowly upgraded my cpu/psu/ram/mobo from the older pc that I had but my graphics card was left to be upgraded last.Not that much after I upgraded the other parts, my graphics card started heating up,I changed the thermal paste from the gpu but I saw no changes.Now my pc boots up with a couple of noises but I see no signal from the screen so I guess the card is gone for good and I have to speed up my new graphics card purchase...
I already have a 7 years old Gigabyte 8600 gt without a fan,just a heatsink pipe..
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2515#ov
Of course as you understand after that sudden death I am in a tight budget but I am between these 3:
Asus R9 280 http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/R9280DC2T3GD5/specifications/
Asus R9 270X http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/R9270XDC2T2GD5/specifications/
Asus R9 270 http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/R9270XDC2T2GD5/specifications/
Since Asus,Gigabyte and Sapphire are the most cheap in my country I am aiming towards these three brands mainly. While R9 280 is my main aim above all those I recently realised that it might not fit in my case and the whole thread is about this.Will any of these 3 cards fit in a Thermaltake Armor Jr http://support.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?C=1433&ID=1440 ? My main aim is to chose size/money/performance wisely since I don't want to be buying a new case at this moment as I am already pushing my budget to buy 1 of those 3. I can't settle for any r7s heh
Here below is a picture taken of my pc's interior focusing at the PCI Express slots (old card removed):
http://oi61.tinypic.com/2eykrxl.jpg
Here comes the problem,the distances in this picture are:
A->B 1.5cm
A->C 27.5cm
C->D 1.5cm
A->D 29cm
I know for sure that the R9 270 is going to fit in there since in Asus' site it's 9.2 inches ~ 23cm so I know I at least can get the R9 270.But how about the other 2?
R9 270x is 10.7 inches ~27.2cm
R9 280 is 11.2 inches ~ 28.4cm
Even if they fit wouldn't that be too close to the front panel and that could cause increased heating?
I am sorry for the lengh of the post,any advice is welcome...
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