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If you buy a new video card, check your case size and shape

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2020 12:33 am
by Das Troll
Finally pulled that 3080 off ebay and decided to just install it in my current system. Turns out that its 13 inches long and 5 inches wide meaning it was too long to fit without overlapping into the hard drive bay. No problem I thought, I'll just cut a chunk out of the case with my dremel. Being aluminum it wasn't too hard. After that I realized I was going ot have to cut another chunk out of the case because it still wouldn't fit. I broke down and went to buy a new case instead of fucking with it.

Re: If you buy a new video card, check your case size and shape

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2020 9:18 am
by Enigma
That reminds me of when Fonaplats was convinced he'd get a beasty video card in his slim line Dell Optiplex and everyone called me a moron for pointing out the case and PSU wouldn't even remotely support it.

I'm pretty sure he ended up cutting up his case to install a shitty 20gb SSD