Graphics cards and space

[Jeremy Mote]

So My plan is to put an HD 7870 in a mid-atx case (antec 300 to be exact)

links:

HD 7870
Antec 300

now, considering that I'll only ever have two hard drives in there, I am perfectly willing to cut out a section of the HDD racks if necessary. I just hope it isn't. my question here is will it fit, and if it won't, are there any similarly priced full-size cases? (budget for case is up to 75 USD and requires USB 3.0)

any suggestions on the path I should take?

 

[Jeremy Mote]

I should also note that the fourth post in this thread talks about a 7870 fitting in a cooler master elite 430.

 

[Deemo13]

Well, it depends on the 7870 you chose.

 

[Jeremy Mote]

the one I linked to. (ASUS HD7870-DC2-2GD5 Radeon 2GB DDR5 VGA/DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort GPU Tweak Utilities PCI-Express 3.0 Graphics Card HD7870-DC2-2GD5)

 

[jisgore]

I bought a Sentey Case They are inexpensive and have plenty of space, i spent 70 bucks on my case and it comes with cool blue leds on the fans which looks very cool

i was just measuring the new card i bought the msi 7950 wich is 2x bigger than the msi 6670 i have now and fits perfectly.

With the board i have it won't fit because the sata ports are aligned vertically but i bought a new board that has them horizontally and that does the trick.

Hope it helps