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HD 6950 Length? (Antec 300)

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maniacalpha1-1

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Will a 6950 fit in an Antec 300? According to this review: http://www.techspot.com/review/349-amd-radeon-6950/page3.html
The length of a reference 6950 is 10.6" and I'm pretty sure I can get that in. However, I can't find length data on HIS and Sapphire 6950s(which is what I would choose from), and on the XFX website they list their 6950s as 11.3" which I might not fit without cutting one of the hard drive brackets.

Anyone out there have a 6950 and an Antec300 and did it fit and what brand of 6950 did you get?

If anyone noticed that I was looking at 6850s a few days ago, I'm starting a different topic because I got a sudden increase in spending power, LOL. I could even possibly do GTX 570 but that would leave me without money to actually buy any games for months. Though it would leave me set on GPU for at least 3 years? More? But then, a 6950 should run strong for 3 years as well considering I only have a max 1680 X 1050 monitor....
 
maniacalpha1-1 said:
a 6950 should run strong for 3 years as well considering I only have a max 1680 X 1050 monitor....
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There is a evga gtx460 SSC @ 850 core and 8.25 inches for 200$ on newegg.
@ 1600x1050 you should save 80/100$ and buy more games. 🙂

Edit:The HIS card is 27.4cm or 10.79 inches long. Just from some forum reading I'm getting 10.8 on the sapphire card, but this one I'm not too sure about. If you have 11 inches to spare any 6950 should fit.
 
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I don't know about the Antec 300 but it doesn't fit in the CM Storm Scout at all and it's a tight fit in the Antec DF-10

The XFX 6950 is HUGE, made the GTX 460 look like a baby in comparison.
 
it can take a card up to 11.5 inches so it will just barely fit if you dont have a hard drive right there.
 
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badb0y said:
I don't know about the Antec 300 but it doesn't fit in the CM Storm Scout at all and it's a tight fit in the Antec DF-10

The XFX 6950 is HUGE, made the GTX 460 look like a baby in comparison.
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So basically I can't upgrade my 2 HIS 5770's to a 6950 because I have a CM Storm Scout? Well that's not exciting at all.
 
Moonzi said:
So basically I can't upgrade my 2 HIS 5770's to a 6950 because I have a CM Storm Scout? Well that's not exciting at all.
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I don't know what Storm Scout looks like inside, but for my Antec 300 I was thinking if I had to I could just grab a pair of metal shears(or bolt cutters if the thickness requires it) and chop out a chunk of my hard drive mount, I mean heck the HD mount is tall enough to hold 4 or 5 HDs and the most I'd ever do is add an SSD to be the primary windows/favorite game drive, and there would still be plenty of room for that.

I did in fact put my HDD on the very bottom of the bottom just so I'd be able to do that later, unfotunately I'm thinking it would be dangerous to try this with the motherboard and everything in the case, as it might take signficant force to make the cut, and if I slipped I might find my hand smashed into something important so....unless there's a safer tool to do that with I better just make sure it fits to begin with. Man, I should have cut out a chunk before I built it in the first place.
 
Moonzi said:
So basically I can't upgrade my 2 HIS 5770's to a 6950 because I have a CM Storm Scout? Well that's not exciting at all.
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It will not fit in a Scout sorry, You will need to mutilate the case. I gave up and just transferred my PC into an Antec DF-10 for now.
 
Actually you can fit it into a storm scout. I did have to do some slight bending to the hdd bay to do so, but it works as long as you have the room in the bay. The card ends up sitting in the second pci-e slot as a result. It is however a very tight fit.
 
akanama said:
Actually you can fit it into a storm scout. I did have to do some slight bending to the hdd bay to do so, but it works as long as you have the room in the bay. The card ends up sitting in the second pci-e slot as a result. It is however a very tight fit.
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Ahhh I never attempted to bend the cage lol, I just took the hammer to the 5.25 inch bay to make room on the first PCI-E port...Oh well lol.
 
badb0y said:
Ahhh I never attempted to bend the cage lol, I just took the hammer to the 5.25 inch bay to make room on the first PCI-E port...Oh well lol.
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Heh, I was onriginaly trying to get it into the first one as well, which did not want to work for me at all. I ended up trying the second slot when i noticed the bay had a slight give to it. Only downside was it drops the number of hdd i can fit in the bay from 5 to 3, but as I'm only rocking two right now it seems to work fine.
 
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