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Ok my dumb friend bought a PC from BB for 3 times what it was worth, and a 100 dollar HDMI cable to go with it. it is severly under powered for his 1080p plasma though. It is a Nvidia 7100 IG motherboard with a 300 watt FSP PSU. (has a 640gb disk, an E5200 CPU). In my original plans I was going to have him get a GTX260 and a new PSU to power it and call it a day. However after looking at some pictures of the inside he sent me I don't think that the GTX260 is going to fit with the sata cables where they are at. here is the picture.

http://home.mchsi.com/~valset/wsb/html/view.cgi-photo.html--SiteID-2538858.html

is there a way around this?
 
Ouch... The inconvenience of some Micro-ATX motherboards.....

I had to jam a monster 280 into my machine on Friday and I have a standard sized ATX mobo and still had to move around some of my cabling including SATA cables... But I have more SATA ports on the bottom... And yea the 280 is longer than the 260 but I still think that you may run into trouble here...

I'll let those who are more familiar with the size of the 260 chime in here on this...
 
well he is playing on a TV, I am thinking that 4850 might fit here. palit makes a shorter version of the 4850, wondering if it will fit.
 
I am playing on a TV as well (Sharp Aquos 1080P)... But I don't have a HTPC which is probably what your trying to tell me that he has...

I use to have a Micro-ATX mobo and case, that was when I would lug it into work to play games while on 3rd shift (just using my monitor at work)... Now that I have a laptop that runs most games at the highest setting, I no longer had a need for the smaller and limited case so I upgraded to a standard sized ATX case and mobo... Thankfully I did since the 280 barely fits in this case as well (mainly due to the cabling)...

Just do your research and I am sure you will find something that fits just right into his case... The only other suggestion I could make would be to grab a well rated Sata Controller for his top PCI-E slot, but I am unsure if he will take a performance hit on the data transfer speeds from his hard drive and I am too tired to seek the answer to my own question hehe...

Best of luck though!
 
Derfman said:
I am playing on a TV as well (Sharp Aquos 1080P)... But I don't have a HTPC which is probably what your trying to tell me that he has...

I use to have a Micro-ATX mobo and case, that was when I would lug it into work to play games while on 3rd shift (just using my monitor at work)... Now that I have a laptop that runs most games at the highest setting, I no longer had a need for the smaller and limited case so I upgraded to a standard sized ATX case and mobo... Thankfully I did since the 280 barely fits in this case as well (mainly due to the cabling)...

Just do your research and I am sure you will find something that fits just right into his case... The only other suggestion I could make would be to grab a well rated Sata Controller for his top PCI-E slot, but I am unsure if he will take a performance hit on the data transfer speeds from his hard drive and I am too tired to seek the answer to my own question hehe...

Best of luck though!
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what he has is a POS BB special, overpriced internet computer that he wants to use as a HTPC. for what this is going to cost him he just could have bought a good one
 
If he told the guy at the BB store that he wanted to game at 1080p, he should be able to return the PC as it was sold under false pretenses.
 
Pick up two of these cables, I use them in my system. http://www.svc.com/gc18atasm12.html They have one end of the cable at a 90 degree angle. Free shipping too!

However, I would be more worried about the length of the card being an issue than the SATA cables. I actually work the GS despartment at Best Buy and we werent able to install a 260GTX into a pretty open Gateway FX case. I thought it was silly that Gateway introduced a fairly nice gaming machine which had little room for expansion :p Anyway, hope that helped a bit.
 
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