Hardware & Technical New gfx card won't fit case
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From my experience getting out that drive bay is almost impossible without wrecking the case, it's probably bolted or soldered. I don't think you will be able to cut it without industrial tools.
You could try to see if you can take off the graphics card plastic cover BUT it will probably void your warranty and there is a chance it's not possible or could cause damage to the card.
The best thing to do would be to get a new case - you could take everything out in the meantime and run the computer with mobo sitting on the desk - very rough but works
In case you do something like that, just make sure not to put anything conductive under your motherboard, plastic spacers/supports would be the best.
Some years ago at a training site they had an old icl server that went in a puff of smoke and the only way to resurect it was to cobble together the parts exo case ! As a temporary solution.
4 YEARS !!! later a contractor excitedly invited us all round to see the pictures of this server he had just visited !!!!
So yeah cases blah !!
Just wondering can you get recycled cases there must be plenty floating around I used to have loads.
When I was running my little computer business I had quite a few older large pc cases lying around. I would have happily sold you one for a few $. In fact I gave a few away. There must be someone in your area who has the same. Don't forget about checking your power supply to see if it can cope with the increased load.
The bay stuff in PC cases is usually plain stamped and spot welded mild steel. It's really soft as far as metals go, and can be cut with tin snips. Taking it to a shop for oxy-acetylene or plasma cutting would be overkill, but fun to watch
On reflection you are right.
Problem is tin snips might struggle in such a confined space-leverage and manipulation.
A possible answer would be "stitching " the area to cut first as far as possible and as close as possible-ie drilling a straight line of closely spaced holes just inside the line of cut-maybe overlapping towards the bottom where the snips might not easily reach or at all.
A Dremel would be good for this-or a flexible drive shaft fitted on a normal electric drill
Wear some protective gloves when you work on "modding" a case-lot of sharp edges!
(Guess who has found this out the hard way when cutting a hole for a fan in the past!
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Cases are super easy to modify. If your half competent with using various cutting tools. some sand paper and black spray paint afterwards. All is good.
Of course measuring the internal case same before purchase is ?.....useful.
Here are some pics of one I modified.. added grill in the top for extra fans, Perspex cover and Perspex side.
Flimley
Of course measuring the internal case same before purchase is ?.....useful.
Here are some pics of one I modified.. added grill in the top for extra fans, Perspex cover and Perspex side.
Flimley
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Don't know your budget or location but I got a CoolerMaster Storm Trooper full-tower windowed-case from Wal-Mart online brand-new for $150 USD. It is big, but a sweetie of a case. Bunch of LED-lit fans (speed adjustable by button), air-filters, a little hidden stash-drawer, can fit an extended-ATX MOBO. Go to walmart.com and search for "Cooler Master Trooper Case". Power Supply not included but I had a good one in my old PC I swapped over.
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