Radeon HD6850 VS. Nvidia GTX460

[Traak]

Originally Posted by Bags

Made in Soviet Russia.

LOLz

[Zulthus]

Prolly. Or I just measured wrong. Guessing the latter. It just looks like a tight squeeze.

[Vancha]

Originally Posted by Zulthus

Prolly. Or I just measured wrong. Guessing the latter. It just looks like a tight squeeze.

You basically said the equivalent of "I need smaller rear tires or they won't fit because the steering wheel's in the way".

Either you have rear tires so huge, that they fill the space where the seats would be, or you're trying to drive your car with the exhaust. In other words, I don't think the RAM goes where you think it goes.

[Zulthus]

No, I know where RAM goes. The bottom of the RAM slots are almost right at the top of the end of the PCI-e slot. Most cards have the fan facing up, that's why I thought it wouldn't fit almost a month ago.

[Vancha]

Ahhh okay, so you were calling the bit that points up, the bottom, and the bit that points down, the top.

But wait...that would imply the XFX 6950 had fans facing towards the RAM slots...I'm confused.

Edit: None of this matters, by the way. I'm just curious.

[Zulthus]

Not sure what you mean on the first part.

No, not the fans themselves, just normally when the fans face up so does the 'card' itself. I don't know how to explain that better. The RAM slots are on the right of the mobo and my case is pretty damn small, so it looked like the card wouldn't fit lengthwise because of the RAM and HDD chassis. I dunno. I just went with the 460 because I know it fits for sure.

[Vancha]

When you say "face up", you mean towards the CPU slot? I'm not aware of any GPU with fans that face up that way.

[Zulthus]

Yes. My HD5670 does, as did most cards I had before it. I guess the newer generations of cards changed all that. Makes sense though, since hot air rises. Not sure why fans were ever face up.

[Goku]

Pics?

[Vancha]

Originally Posted by Goku

Pics?

Indeed. Even one pulled from google would do.

[Zulthus]

Alright, I'm an idiot for not knowing what my own mobo looks like. Forget the fan facing down thing. I thought it did because I referenced off of pics from the webs. Anyway, here's the pic:

http://s1113.photobucket.com/albums/...urrent=003.jpg

I still think the card wouldn't fit unless it's COMPLETELY flat at the bottom. See how close the end of the RAM slot is to my card? The 6950 is about twice as long. The HDD chassis is also probably in the way.

[Rbstr]

Barely fitting below the ram has been a thing for a long time...Asus boards (and probably others) no longer use a lever-thing for the bottom now to save that space. It's just a spring-loaded thing so you can get RAM in/out w/o having to take the vid card out.

You're kinda fucked if it doesn't fit, because most/all mid/high ends cards are certainly too long for you, then. Gonna need a new case, bro.

Is that BTX, by the way?

[Zulthus]

I was told on purchase at Best Buy it is an ATX Foxconn 2A92.

The I/O switch is on the left when looking at it from the back, so I'm pretty sure it's ATX.

[Traak]

New case and MoBo, really good ones, are less than 300 buxx. If you work at McDonald's you can make more than that in a week, can't you?

[Zulthus]

Originally Posted by Traak

New case and MoBo, really good ones, are less than 300 buxx. If you work at McDonald's you can make more than that in a week, can't you?

You most certainly can. I want to see if the card fits before worrying about a new mobo/case though.