Question Spacing between graphic card and case

[F1NALBOSS]

Hello i just finished buying and mounting all my components, the case is not small by any mean... Fractal Norh XL. Bought an 5080 Astral and after installing it i feel like the room between the GPU and case is fairly small, i had to cut the GPU stand support that came with the GPU to support the weight. Would you guys have any concern with the cables going under and this little room for the GPU intake fans?

note: i can't realy mount it vertically since theres a exhaust fan integrated in the GPU.


here's a picture looking for advice and thought about this. thank you

https://imgur.com/a/5k2LjG3

 

[Aeacus]

Looks fine to me.

If you want to see tight space for GPUs with essentially 0 airflow for GPU fans, look old images of quad-SLI;

Direct link if image doesn't load: https://static1.xdaimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/gtx-titan-x-pascal-4-way-sli.jpeg

Now, that's tight. But GPUs worked nevertheless.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

It looks great. Nice setup.

 

[F1NALBOSS]

So you guys wouln't worry about the airflow coming from GPU intake being close to the case and the cable having to bend?

How would you guys route the cable for the GPU? considering theres a exhaust fan on the top right of the GPU

 

[Aeacus]

How would you guys route the cable for the GPU? considering theres a exhaust fan on the top right of the GPU

All, open-air type GPUs have fans near the power plug.

Here is image of my 3 builds with visible cable routing paths:
(Full specs with more pics in my sig.)

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

So you guys wouln't worry about the airflow coming from GPU intake being close to the case and the cable having to bend?

How would you guys route the cable for the GPU? considering theres a exhaust fan on the top right of the GPU

No worries will be fine!

 

[Gururu]

Looks good, as long as fresh air doesn't have any bottlenecks getting into the case.

 

[F1NALBOSS]

Yeah all these setups have alot more room than i do tho


i got 3 intake fans up front, 1 exhaust in the back, radiator up top, the GPU have the 3 fans intake and 1 exhaust at the top and the case is all mesh pannel

 

[Aeacus]

Yeah all these setups have alot more room than i do tho

Well, it was your own decision to pick smaller PC case.

Overall, your build is fine. The GPU you have, can freely survive in much smaller PC cases as well, e.g in mini-ITX builds.
~2cm free space in front of the GPU fans usually suffices.

 

[F1NALBOSS]

Well, it was your own decision to pick smaller PC case.

Overall, your build is fine. The GPU you have, can freely survive in much smaller PC cases as well, e.g in mini-ITX builds.
~2cm free space in front of the GPU fans usually suffices.

Fractal north XL is considered a small case? caase can fit a eatx, i didn't expect to have this little room under my GPU

 

[Aeacus]

Fractal north XL is considered a small case?

It is a standard mid-tower ATX case.
Case dimensions (LxWxH):
503 x 240 x 509 mm
specs: https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/north/north-xl/chalk-white/

For comparison, my Corsair 760T V2 Black, which is considered as full-tower ATX case;
Case Dimensions
564mm x 246mm x 568mm
specs: https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/pc-...wer-windowed-case-cc-9011073-ww#tab-techspecs

Quite a bit bigger, in all ways.

caase can fit a eatx

E-ATX is only slightly wider than regular ATX. So, this isn't actually a metric to consider if PC case is big or not.
ATX - 305x244mm
E-ATX - 305x257mm or 305x264mm or 305x267mm or 305x272mm.

My PC case, besides supporting E-ATX, also supports XL-ATX, which is both wider and taller than ATX MoBo,
XL-ATX - 343x262mm or 345x262mm or 345x264mm.

Good metric to see how big PC case is, is how many expansion slots (PCI) it has.
Your PC case has 7 slots. Mine has 9 slots.

i didn't expect to have this little room under my GPU

Well, due to topmost M.2 placement on MoBo, the two topmost expansion slots on the PC case are blocked by M.2. GPU is quad-slot, leaving only 1 slot worth of space below GPU. And since you can't remove PSU shroud, it gives your beefy GPU a bit of breathing room.

Either live with it or replace PC case with full-tower ATX or super-tower ATX.