The Antec P150 Case Will Not Fit Geforce 8800GTX Video Cards
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The Antec P150 Case Will Not Fit Geforce 8800GTX Video Cards
Well I run my personal system in an Antec P150 as I like the small size, suspended hard drives and sound deadened side panels. It truly is a quite case now that I put in the OCZ GameXStream 700W PSU and new fans...
I'm doing some benchmarking on my fresh install of Vista Ultimate 32-bit and figured it was time to upgrade my XFX GeForce 7900GTX to the XFX GeForce 8800GTX graphics card, so I tore apart my system...
At first I thought it was hitting my hard drives so I unplugged them all... Then I noticed this:
Oh yea the card is hitting the drive bay. It turns out the drive bay cage needs to be notched for the card to fit. The 8800GTS is 3cm shorter and fits. Here is a closeup...
Just wanted to let everyone know that it doesn't fit without some minor modifications to the drive bay - meaning you have to use a dremel tool and cut it out.
To make a long story short I think I'm going to change cases...
I'm doing some benchmarking on my fresh install of Vista Ultimate 32-bit and figured it was time to upgrade my XFX GeForce 7900GTX to the XFX GeForce 8800GTX graphics card, so I tore apart my system...
At first I thought it was hitting my hard drives so I unplugged them all... Then I noticed this:
Oh yea the card is hitting the drive bay. It turns out the drive bay cage needs to be notched for the card to fit. The 8800GTS is 3cm shorter and fits. Here is a closeup...
Just wanted to let everyone know that it doesn't fit without some minor modifications to the drive bay - meaning you have to use a dremel tool and cut it out.
To make a long story short I think I'm going to change cases...
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yea i had to squeeze my 8800 gtx in my case...its just a hair above my ide cable connection on the mobo for my dvd drive too which is kinda scary lol
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I thought I had good eyesight, but I can't really see that it don't fit looking at the pictures! Feeling kind of dimwitted for asking but can someone point to where in the picture it makes contact with the drivebay?
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The card is sitting on the drive bay. Look at the right side of the card... it's sitting on the metal housing just above where the fan header (power header) is on the board.noac wrote:I thought I had good eyesight, but I can't really see that it don't fit looking at the pictures! Feeling kind of dimwitted for asking but can someone point to where in the picture it makes contact with the drivebay?
[img]http://hem.bredband.net/navnoa/antec_p1 ... gtx(2).jpg[/img]Apoptosis wrote:Look at the right side of the card... just above where the fan header (power header) is on the board.
B? Or am I way off? The drivebay housing is blocking the card from "sinking down" towards the motherboard?
Which revision of p150 do you have?
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