best 8 inch long gfx card

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I'm wanting a gtx 970 but it's too long for my case :(

My case combined with all my hard drive bays being full can only support 8in card. Had a bigger 9600gt but had empty bays....I'm sad.. Plz help guys
 

Ken g6

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You can have your cake and 8 it too! ;)
Measuring merely 17cm in length, the card, specially built for small form factor PCs based on mini-ITX motherboards.
That's actually under 7 inches!

The next question is whether that's the best 8-inch-or-less card. I think I saw another 970 like this recently.
 

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GTX 970 requires either 2 6-pin connectors or 1 8-pin. They probably couldn't fit 2 6-pins on such a small card. As for the 400 Watt PSU...that's just an estimate.

Edit: I found [thread=2410573]where I'd seen[/thread] the other <7in GTX 970. ASUS might be better than Gigabyte.

Edit2: Somebody posted a picture of this dual-fan Zotac there, which PCPartPicker says is exactly 8 inches. :D
 
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