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Fayceless on 01 March 2013
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Captain_Tom said:


He's not necessarily looking to get the cheapest build.  That motherboard lacks SATA 3, RAM capacity and OC options compared to what he has picked out.  Cases can be important, too: I tried to cram my parts into a micro case and ended up having zero air flow for my video card (7770), and I had to keep an eye on it and not push it, at all.  I got a bigger case with good flow and fans and it doesn't break a sweat anymore.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119259

That's my case, I really like it.  It's very flexible, functional, and looks nice too.


That motherboard has PCI 3.0, and it CAN overclock  (Read buddy), though I understand if you want a better one so get an ASROCK Extreme-4M for like $130.

 The parts in my sig are in a case SMALLER than the one I listed so what the hell are you doing to your 7770?   I have mine overclocked a lot too lol.

 

P.S.  You got a case THAT BIG for an HD 7770?  LOL ok...

Hahahah, here's the whole story, it's a great story about BAD PLANNING on my part lol:

I had a micro-atx sized case, so I bought a micro-atx board, thinking I could just re-use my old cheap case no problem.  The mobo has one PCI slot and 2 PCI 3.0 slots(above and below the pci).  The 7770 was too big for the bottom slot, as the case was too short, so I had to put it in the top slot.  But I have a sound card, as I do a lot of music stuff (writing, producing, etc) so I want to be sure I can handle whatever I need for that, and I don't want to rely on on-board sound for that.  So, the sound card goes in PCI and the 7770 goes in 3.0 and there was NO SPACE betweeen them.  The air from the 7770's fan couldn't go anywhere and it built up heat real bad.  It's a mid-size case (one step up from micro) and although it is kind of big, I needed that one step up.  Not just for the 7770 but also for the sound.

Now I know to think those things through.

 

Edit: I might mean "Mini" instead of "Micro" (seriously, mobo manufacturers, that's confusing!) whichever is bigger.