Will the GeForce GTX 970 fit my rig?

[SLanng]

It's been a long time since i messed around with my PC.
I want to upgrade it for better performance when gaming.
I'm looking to buy the EVGA GeForce GTX 970 Superclocked ACX 2.0 - but I don't know if it will fit my system or run well at all.

I'm going to upgrade to 2 x 8 GB RAM aswell.

My current specs are:
Motherboard GA-78LMT-S2P
AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series 1GB
AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHz
2 x 4GB DDR3 RAM
XFX 800W PSU

Any insight would be great, thanks

 

[NerdyComputerGuy]

What case?

It should fit.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Not enuff info... going to need to indicate your case model or the measured distance from rear of case to anything which would interfere with card

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487076

Card Dimensions (L x H) = 9.50" x 4.38"

Here's the best article comparing various 970s that I have found to date.... the bottom third of pages 2 thru 4 is specifically interesting. Note tho that, after 1st saying that they designed the heat sink's 3rd heat pipe to miss the GPU on purpose, they redesigned the card and fixed that item.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2014/09/19/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-review/1

 

[sizzling]

Your cpu is a bit weak, I'd expect it to hold back performance in any modern game, how much will depend how cpu intensive each games is.

 

[Jayhawker32]

Hi,

So based on your CPU and MOBO as far as I can tell it will work with your system. You may see some bottleneck from your CPU. I couldn't find how many PCI-E lanes that your CPU supports however your MOBO supports PCI-E x16 Gen2 which will support the 970. As far as I can tell you should be good to go with getting it, just know that performance may be SLIGHTLY limited by the rest of your system however I wouldn't worry about it too much.

 

[SLanng]

It doesn't say anything on the case? I bought it costum from a guy on the net

I cant post the picture http://postimg.org/image/ari13jgjx/

Does this help?

 

[SLanng]

Your cpu is a bit weak, I'd expect it to hold back performance in any modern game, how much will depend how cpu intensive each games is.

Can you recommend a new CPU? 300-400$

 

[JackNaylorPE]

It doesn't say anything on the case? I bought it costum from a guy on the net

I cant post the picture http://postimg.org/image/ari13jgjx/

Does this help?

Do you have a tape measure or ruler ? Measure the opening from the slots to the edge of the opening.


PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($227.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($146.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $374.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-19 14:41 EST-0500
If changing CPU, you'd want a MoBo to go with it.

 

[SLanng]

It doesn't say anything on the case? I bought it costum from a guy on the net

I cant post the picture http://postimg.org/image/ari13jgjx/

Does this help?

Do you have a tape measure or ruler ? Measure the opening from the slots to the edge of the opening.


PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($227.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($146.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $374.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-19 14:41 EST-0500
If changing CPU, you'd want a MoBo to go with it.

I don't have anything to measure with right now. I'll bring something home from work tomorrow, and post again.

 

[Jayhawker32]

I agree with JackNaylorPE, might as well upgrade the CPU and MOBO at the same time if you are going to spend that much money. Better performance from both while also getting you up to PCI-E 3.0.

 

[SLanng]

I'm going for the MOBO + CPU upgrade option.

Thanks for your time guys