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chulex67

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So i Want to build my self a new system mini itx with these two types of cases

Isk 300-150 or Coolermaster elite 100. They are real Small and dont have much power my question was, is there anyway to use a 6670 or 6770 In these cases? I read about this psu
http://www.xpcgear.com/ep450cd.html

I think its the best solution for me but im not really sure if the gpu will fit in the case, Im planning on geting the i3 2100T and any of those 2 cards powered with the psu. Any Suggestions or toughts?
 
The power requirements GPU manufacturers suggest are for full sized ATX systems with many hard drives and such, not mITX systems. Whenever I've gotten EVGA or other company customer service people on the phone they always give me crazy answers. The last guy said I needed a 48amp 12v rail for a GTX560ti, in my mITX. Nuts.

I don't know the specifics of your GPU selection but they look like small single slot cards, and I'd be surprised if the GPU itself needed more than 150watts. For example, the GTX 580 is a 280-320 watt card at full load, but the retailers recommend 700 watt PSUs.

With that CPU and GPU I bet you could get away with a 300watt PSU. Theres a bunch of 450watt and under power supplies in a variety of shapes and SFF sizes.

Please seek confirmation from other people before fully believing what I've said.
 
Mlongrie said:
The power requirements GPU manufacturers suggest are for full sized ATX systems with many hard drives and such, not mITX systems. Whenever I've gotten EVGA or other company customer service people on the phone they always give me crazy answers. The last guy said I needed a 48amp 12v rail for a GTX560ti, in my mITX. Nuts.

I don't know the specifics of your GPU selection but they look like small single slot cards, and I'd be surprised if the GPU itself needed more than 150watts. For example, the GTX 580 is a 280-320 watt card at full load, but the retailers recommend 700 watt PSUs.

With that CPU and GPU I bet you could get away with a 300watt PSU. Theres a bunch of 450watt and under power supplies in a variety of shapes and SFF sizes.

Please seek confirmation from other people before fully believing what I've said.
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Evga reps go by nvidia specified numbers. It is for the companies protection and that of non tech saavy users. I ran an i7 and gtx 580 off a 450w psu but it was high quality and I did my research first. You can bet people would be throwing 580s onto very low quality and low powered psus and blowing systems up if they called evga and they told them 450w was fine. /offtopic
 
300W should be fine. I ran a 95W i5 750 and an HD6850 in a 300W Shuttle and it was all within their guidelines.

I think the 6770 is basically a rebadged 5770 and they pull about 110-125W if I recall.

And isn't the 2100T one of the 35W CPUs?

This seems like an awful lot of trouble for a system with those specs.
 
Those are full height cards. They will not fit in either case. The Antec will only fit a low profile card. The Cooler Master does not have any slot whatsoever.

The ePower auxiliary PSU uses a half height 5¼" drive bay. Both Antec and Cooler Master cases you mentioned only take slim notebook optical drives.

What do you need the graphics card for? Gaming?
 
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