Fitting and Powering the 5870

I have a Thermaltake V9 Case
http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Prod [...] 08&ID=1819

and the CoolerMaster Xtreme Power Plus 600W
http://www.coolermaster.com/produc [...] ct_id=5906

will I be able to fit in the 5870 in the case and power it with the PSU i currently have?

The specification for the case's dimensions are:
HxWxD : 16.97 x 7.52 x 18.5 in
So looks like I have 18.5 inches of room inside... hmmm nice

stop tempting me!! :|

The issue is the maximum lenght of the card, with the power connectors is about tweleve inches, plus five inches for the drive cage that is rotated ninety degrees give you about seventeen inches. There is a front mounted fan. If the 18.5 includes the drive cage and not the space for the fan you should be okay.

OPEN THE CASE!!

Measure inside along the video card slot starting at the the slots at the rear of the case.

If you have more than 11.5" of clearance (eg, 11.6" ), you have enough room.

Do NOT judge by the outside of the case.

From this:

http://www.hardocp.com/article/200 [...] d_review/4

excerpted this:

"Here is the Radeon HD 5870 installed into our test system. You will want to watch out for clearance, this video card clocks in at a full 10.75" inches long to the edge of the red vents on the back. You can see a close-up of the top vents above, the air that escapes here is very hot and does exhaust into your case. If however, you have a side panel fan or fan on the back of the chassis near the expansion slots, it could potentially exhaust this hot air. Also worth noting is a mention of the "intake vents" on the rear edge of the card. When quizzed about the value of these, we got a very serious, "Because the look cool," answer. And we have to admit, yeah, the look pretty cool if you are into that sort of thing."

dont buy the 5870 its a not worth it card, get 9800gt oc wc edition it POWNS!!!

after a dozen phonecalls and an hour long drive, picked up the Gigabyte 5870.

Pics:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php? [...] =635090800

Yeah its huge:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php? [...] =635090800

For others with a TT V9 case who wants to get this card:
http://img263.imageshack.us/i/10102009037.jpg/

thats the gap left between the card and the case.

had some little hiccups, but otherwise running fine.

hiccup no1:
some of my games are crashing. like nfs undercover, and call of juarez. *i had completed coj before on my old card and it never crashed*

hiccup no2:
i tried installing the 9.10 beta ati driver, ran fine for some hours, but when i restarted the comp. everytime i would start CCC, the screen would be filled with small multicoloured dots/squares and eventually freeze and loose display.
I rolled back to the normal ati driver available from ati's site, and its working fine now.

am amazed at how silent the card is...specially when am not gaming. only at intense games, with loads of action going on, the fan starts speeding up and makes some noise, but is drowned by my z5500

am playing all my games at 1920X1080, 8xaa, 16xaf, (maxing these two whichever game gives me that option) with all settings high, am getting around 50~140fps depending upon the games am playing.

anyone else with a 5870 have similar problems?