Shuttle sn25p help/advice required please

[Tefty]

Well, firstly, hi. I?ve just joined these forums to try and get some help.

I went and got myself a shuttle sn25p a few weeks along with the following hardware

400 GB Seagate Barracuda SATA 7200rpm 8MB cache HDD with NCQ
Corsair XMS memory - 1024 MB ( 2 x 512 MB ) - DIMM 184-PIN - DDR
Gigabyte Radeon X800XL 256MB DDR, PCI-E, DVI, VIVO, Retail with Silent Heat Pipe

and few other things, like the dvd-rw drive, but I doubt that?s important.

anyways... I put it all together with no problems.

That is until it came time to put the case on. The SN25p supports dual slot graphics cards, however the card I got sticks out on the bottom of the card not the top, so it sticks out the side of the system and I cant get the damned case on.
I decided to get a hole cut in my case so that the graphics card would poke through it with the case on and then I could get some plexi-glass with a buldge to go over it.

I was a moron. Got the hole cut on the wrong side.

And now, I can?t find a replacement case, the only ones around are for the smaller shuttles not the SN25P's...

My question then is Where do I have to go or what do I have to do to get this case, does anyone know of any stores that stock? Google doesn?t help


If anyone can help, i would be thankful


-Tefty-

 

[QurazyQuisp]

Why don't you call shuttle, after all they make them.

 

[Megamixman]

I don't think anyone sells replacement cases. You might get lucky and find someone selling a broken P Chassis or find someone selling their chassis alone at either eBay of Sudhian. Those are your two best chances.

 

[NoToRiOuS1]

like megamixman said, those are your only two viable alternatives though honestly speaking, i doubt you'll have much like with that. there have been quite a few cases of people trying to put a passively cooled graphic card(x800xl is almost every single case) and weren't able to fit it in. my thoughts on this are, now that the mistake's already made, instead of spending god knows how much on the case, why not just opt for buying another heatsink from ebay or somewhere in the FS/FT forum and stick that on. as for the holes, either leave them as vents or put some tape on it and paint it to match the color of the case if the holes aren't all that huge.

 

[Cares]

I think you have your best chances of calling Shuttle and asking if you can buy a replacement case.

 

[Tefty]

ahhh crap, i dont want to have to buy a new case... it was £300 :-s
(yeah they might be cheaper somewhere but im a n00b)

and tbh i think im gunna go with faboloso's idea and just cut another hold on the other side, and try to cover the other one up, or have it as another window...

whenever i get it sorted i'll post some pics or summot


cheers guys

 

[FreshFish]

Yea, just cut another hole and when you're finished post in the Sudhian mod forum