graphics card for Asus A88XM-A

[golder7]

Hello. I have an ASUS A88XM-A motherboard with AMD A10-7850K APU amd x2 4gb 2133 RAM in a cooler master silencio 452 case powered by a corsair cx600 psu.

I am interested to know what size, physically, will the board support in the form of a graphics card. I have recently been looking at the radeon r9 270x/280x cards. I know these cards would fit in the pcie slot and in the case. My concern however is if it would be OK overhanging the motherboard (micro ATX), or if the card would be touching any components on the board.

Does any one know if this will be a problem?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Robert Cook]

The card can overhang the board, and there will be no difference is support of the card. the cards should fit, as they extend down and the RAM slots should be high enough up to be out of the way. just don't get a card with a thick backplate.

 

[golder7]

Thank you for your response Robert. Are you able to confirm what yiu mean by a card with a thick back plate? Do you have an example? Sorry if it's fairly obvious.

Also, just to confirm a graphics card would appear, to me, to be overhanging the chips, is this OK? Also it looks as though it will overhang x2 SATA ports. These won't be needed at any point, but again is this OK?

 

[Robert Cook]

It can over hang all the ports and chips, so long as you do not need access to those ports. a thick back plate would only be on a very high end card and that is not likely. pretty much any card will work, the motherboard manufactures take stuff like that into account a custom back plate is about the only way it wont fit. The ASUS 290X direct CU II has a fairly thick back plate, but that will fit too. so pretty much do not worry about back plates or their thickness unless you are getting a custom one.

 

[golder7]

Thanks for your help, much appreciated