nVidia Card with Horizontal Power Molex?

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I have a 3U server chassis for one of my computers:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811165439
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Because of it's 3U form factor, it doesn't have a lot of vertical space. The current video card I have in the case is an ATI card:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161463
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As you can see on this card, its not that tall, and the molex power pins are angled horizontally across the card.

I'm looking for a powerful nVidia GTX card which has a similar form factor... not tall, and horizontal power connectors. Everything I've found has vertical power connectors.
 
Would something like this work? There are a number of 90 degree adaptors on ebay that might work for this case.

That said, I'm unsure of a current gen card that'd work in your use case, unless you went for a similar adaptor.
 
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Unfortunately, that adapter wont cut it. There isn't enough room in a 3U case.
 
This is the cry of many HTPC builders. Everything has the plug on the long edge now it seems. Short of that eBay adapter which solves the space issue for some, the best you'll do is to bust out the soldering iron ... or the 750 (or 750Ti?) that has no plug at all.
 
Could you use a PCI-E extender cable and reorient/relocate the card to some place in the case that it fits? You might be able to use a display-port or HDMI adapter as short extender to get the video to the outside of the case.
 
Yeah, on older cards like my GTX 460, the horizontal connectors were universal. Now they've switched universally to vertical, cause wide cases are in

Sucks, but that's how it is :(

Either settle for bus powered, or upgrade your case.
 
Yeah, I bought that card for my HTPC. The cooler is very quiet, but still overclocks well.
 
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