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if you can modify the case you can probably do this to it . this is a for a friend as i cant afford this for myself. i will make a worklog somewhere so if others are interested in doing same
.)Just a quick update - the Asus GTX560 ti DCii fits!
The fit is very very tight tho! lol (It is 245mm +- a layer of paint with up facing connectors! )
(I'll add a link URL at the end of the post showing the card to ID it 100%)
I did a dry run fit tonight to make sure but i had to remove the drive tray to manage it - and think the cooling (H60) may have to go in last. We'll see.
So the plan is to build another 1155 ITX once we get the "fixed" 1155 Mobos arriving some month soon i hope.Got most parts and case already - and though the GTX 460's (MSI Hawk's) always fits so nicely the 560 just gives max bang for this case methinks.
Will post some pics once i build if someone's interested.
(The info from Jen re the mATX is now giving me some very interesting ideas...
Jen - how did you do the MoBo standoffs- DEFinitely want to see the build log if you don't mind)
Q - Anyone have a make of 6950 or even 6970 that fits (is 245mm or shorter (upwards power conn's)?
Cheers,
Jan
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pic of card i have - http://www.asus.com/websites/Global/products/2oRA7x6MYEwAq4mL/l4RyWRtAvcuwP2IR_500.jpg
), though if you are on a budget, I can see how the P8P67-M would be a bad choice for overclocking - it has exactly hafl the power phases the Pro variant has, which would probably kill off any chance of heavy overclocking, SB 32nm power efficiency be damned. P8P67-M Pro variant is fine (pushing 4.8GHz @ 1.41V on my shiney i7 2600k
hard to find the MSI P67 mATX boards in stock (I saw one model on sale before the B3 recall, well, I saw a lot at CeBiT2011, too, but that's unrelated ). Hi Jen,
Sorry to hear re the board problems. It is frustrating to get sizes and specs at times.
One thing i did want to mention is re the "unusable" SATA ports.
If they are the sole issue then have you considered a PCIe card or SSD?
I mean the SSD that comes pre-packed on a PCIe format. Like the OCZ Revo. ($$ i know)
Else a RAID or port multiplier card - i have a PCIe Lian Li A01 i think it's called - 5 x SATA II ports.
Tho then the booting/driver issues may just be the next hurdle - some cards are are fine, some not.
(The Lian Li one uses a specific paired Jmicron set that needs drivers to be a boot disk if i recall correctly. Sunix etc are cool - no problems - i use many of them)
But your call to leave it may be the right way - too much hassle is going past the great, it's a challenge point into perhaps./..costly and foolhardy...
I'll keep my eye here as we still have no ITX MoBo's in ZA - and not likely for months it seems so maybe next week it's mATX time. I have a normal P8P67 Pro and the EVO too. Will look if they make a mATX and try following your footsteps squishing it into the Q11.
Jan
Shame about that, I was considering the possibility of fitting a sfx psu under the graphics card, but they're too thick...My case got here today, and since nobody replied to my post above, I'm answering the question from my own post.
With the bottom bracket removed, the room below the video card is 1.75" (45 mm). That's if you're using a double-slot video card, of course. A single slot video card will give you a little more space.
The bottom bracket, BTW, sits about 0.5" (13 mm) above the bottom of the case when it's installed. I probably won't use mine. Too bad Lian Li didn't drill mounting holes for hard drives in the bottom of the case, I'll have to do that mod myself.