evga hadron air msi radeon r9 280 3gb

[John Hattam]

will the msi radeon r9 280 3gb fit in the evga hadron air?

pcpartpicker says its 1mm to large...but come on...it should be fine...right??

 

[Suztera]

It won't fit then but you can try to wiggle it in.

 

[bgunner]

Have you ever tried to put a 10 mm Bolt in a 9 mm hole? Well if not I'll tell you what happens, One or both get damaged. Either pick a different case or a different GPU.

If you try to "wedge/wiggle it in" the card could be damaged, the case could be damaged or the motherboard could be damaged if not a combination of all. Trying to wedge/wiggle it in is the worst advice you could receive. If the measurements don't work together a change needs to be made.

 

[Rammy]

I'd say it'd fit fine actually. The specs are designed around (presumably) the length of a high end Nvidia reference card - which is exactly 267mm long. If you look at some of the stock photos with this type of "Titan" cooler, there is a little clearance at the end, so I'd imagine a 268mm card will fit without any problems.

Having said that, I'd strongly advise against it. The Hadron has very poor ventilation/airflow surrounding the graphics card area so it's generally advisable to use a reference "blower" style cooler which will self-exhaust a lot of the heat rather than letting it build up. Various posts on the forums here talk about high graphics card temps, high noise levels or both due to not following this advice. Often the same people have commented on similar issues with the CPU- again due to a poor component selection, or on how noisy the PSU can be too. Just a heads-up - I genuinely really like the Hadron Air as it's a really decent design but it does mean some component restrictions for decent performance.

 

[John Hattam]

struggling with my case, have my other parts sorted, a 75% work, 25% play build

xeon e3-1230
msi radeon r9 280 3gb
seagate 1tb, sandisk 128gb ssd
500w evga 80+ bronze
16gb ripjaws
msi h81l mini mobo (can be altered if i decide to go matx)...

comes to about 630pounds last time i checked

looking for a manageably small case to take to uni and back...was looking at the dragonslayer but i dont like the way the usb 3 passes through... quite like the idea of mini itx but cooling. its a tough one