Best graphics card under 210mm in length?

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Building a mini itx for gaming, and this will just be a secondary pc for travel or taking to a friends place to play Gta or something. I will be using the i3 4170, but might change that if intel releases a new i3 with skylake. Anyway, what is the best possible graphics card I can buy around 150 to 200 bucks under 210mm in length
 
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Actually, that form factor is not a problem. There are some great video cards that can fit in that space. The price and the fact that you will be using an i3 CPU are the limiting factors.

From my perspective, I would recommend the ASUS GTX960-MOC-2GD5 card for $204 (after $10 MIR):

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-gtx960moc2gd5

It is an excellent Geforce GTX 960 card, and is just over 170mm long. The NVidia cards will use less power and normally make less noise than the AMD ones, so I tend to favor them. If you plan on upgrading CPUs in the future, an i5 would be much better for gaming than an i3 (4 real CPU cores in the i5). With a 960 GPU, you will usually not be CPU limited for current games.

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I think this is the best one. Dual fans, so good cooling and good graphics at 1080p.

Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 960 2GB Video Card ($197.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $197.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-04 20:17 EDT-0400

206mm.

ZOTAC-GTX-960-3.jpg

 
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^ That or this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202151&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker,%20LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID= for a bit extra performance
 
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I would like to keep it as close to 150 as possible so what is the next best thing to the 960
 
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Actually, that form factor is not a problem. There are some great video cards that can fit in that space. The price and the fact that you will be using an i3 CPU are the limiting factors.

From my perspective, I would recommend the ASUS GTX960-MOC-2GD5 card for $204 (after $10 MIR):

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-gtx960moc2gd5

It is an excellent Geforce GTX 960 card, and is just over 170mm long. The NVidia cards will use less power and normally make less noise than the AMD ones, so I tend to favor them. If you plan on upgrading CPUs in the future, an i5 would be much better for gaming than an i3 (4 real CPU cores in the i5). With a 960 GPU, you will usually not be CPU limited for current games.

The best ITX value system would normally be an i5 CPU and a Geforce GTX 970 card (again sticking with NVidia for the lower power requirements and heat output).
 
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The next one is a big step down in graphics. The GTX 750 Ti.
 
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Ok I will go with the 960 then, thanks
 
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The R9 285(2nd link in that post). The 285 is only a couple fps slower than the 960.
 
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This is a very good call indeed. Actually, the R9 285 is slighly faster than the GTX 960. So for the price that Powercolor is sublime, 207mm aswell.
 
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