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I am going to build a computer at Christmas, I haven't built one for myself before but my friend gave me some money and I build one for him a couple of months back. My dad has offered me his old gaming case, it has thick walls, has good ventilation and requires a key to open, problem with the case is that is really old and the optical drives in it have old connections, also the maximum length graphics card I can fit in would be no more 260mm(max) and it is a micro atx case. I also found this case http://www.sharkoon.com/product/1678/BD28#desc on the internet which I really like, it is an atx form factor and I like the window and choice of colours. If I use the old case I would have to downsize to a micro atx PC, bit would save my self 40 or so quid by not buying a case. Which option would you go with and what do you think of the sharkoon case? Also are there any other cases(have to look decent) which you could recommend?
Onto the graphics cards, the graphics card I was originally going to use is https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-video-card-gvn970g1gaming4gd as far as I am aware it is the coolest (temperature) and best looking version of the 970 and is also one of the best performing. How ever the issue I have with it is that it is very long (312mm in length) so it wouldn't fit into my old case. https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-video-card-04gp42974kr This is the card I would have to use on my old case. However I then did some further research and I found I can get a 390 with 8gb of vram for the same price. I know Black Friday is coming up so should I buy the cheapest at the time if one goes on offer?So basically I have no clue of which combination of case and gpu to use (short or long, 970 or 390), any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance
Onto the graphics cards, the graphics card I was originally going to use is https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-video-card-gvn970g1gaming4gd as far as I am aware it is the coolest (temperature) and best looking version of the 970 and is also one of the best performing. How ever the issue I have with it is that it is very long (312mm in length) so it wouldn't fit into my old case. https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-video-card-04gp42974kr This is the card I would have to use on my old case. However I then did some further research and I found I can get a 390 with 8gb of vram for the same price. I know Black Friday is coming up so should I buy the cheapest at the time if one goes on offer?So basically I have no clue of which combination of case and gpu to use (short or long, 970 or 390), any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance
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