hello all,
I recently completely rebuilt my 13 year old system with new MB, etc, the only things I reused were three SATA drives and the Case (ended up getting a larger 1000 W PS, inplace of 650 due to lack of enough SATA power connectors).
I bought two of the ASUS GTX 680s with the intention of setting up SLI with them but they don't fit!
The bottom card slot is too close to the bottom of the case! I guess with the usual TWO slot Wide Video cards this is not an issue, but I did not realize teh GTX 680 is THREE CARDS WIDE.
Anyone know of a case (full tower) that has the room to do this?
MB Crosshair V Formula Z
CPU AMD FX 8350
SSD drive for system drive with new install Windows 7 ultimate
Two 2 TB drives in RAID mirror
Two 1 TB drives in RAID stripping for 100 gig (200 gig for games drive) the rest in regular partitions
Two DVD burners
1 200 GB drive (left over)
16 GB GSKILL
Corsair HX 1050 PS
Case: Full tower.
And....I have a cooling fan in the top rear of the case and two in the front and the CPU still overheats when I run Handbrake (rips very fast with the AMD FX-8350) but I have to run it with the case open LOL... Any suggestions on cooling? I think the EOM CPU Fan assembly is fine, I just need to move more air out of the case. I have the two front fans (they move 26 cfm each) directed Out of the front and the rear blows out also I think. There are vents on the sides of the case and rear. Perhaps a PCI slot fan may help? If I put it just below the processor slot?
Thanks,
Mike
ASUS Crosshair V Formula Z, AMD FX 8350, ASUS GTX680 x 2 in SLI, 16 gig G-Skill Trident, Crucial M4 SSD,
Corsair Obsidian 800d, Corsair HX 1050, Windows 7 Ultimate