New Video Card... score!! Case doesn't fit card height... @&^$ !!!

[CW4 Adaraan]

Was excited, especially given the current ethereum-induced video card shortage, to finally bring home home a shiny MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X 6G only to learn that it will not fit into my beautiful Carbide Series Air 240 case.

Card length (277mm) easily fits into the max GPU length (290mm) supported by the case. I forgot to consider card height (140mm) which is two centimeters too big. :-[

Back to my outdated Sapphire Radeon HD 6790 1GB for now while I shop for a new case. :'(

Was (still am) really happy with the Air 240. Compact, great cable management, dust filters everywhere. Really sucks that it won't fit.

The Air 540 and Air 740 are looking like good candidates; but the lack of PSU dust filter in both of these is just asinine!

Any other ideas folks?

 

[SSG (Ret) Donohoe]

http://www.bequiet.com/en/case/593

This is my case, ticks all the boxes and very modular internally for rads etc.

 

[CW4 Adaraan]

Much appreciated. Nice lookin' case!

My local store had none of those; but did have a MasterCase Pro 3. Pretty happy with it, overall.

My NAS -- which is itself whisper quiet -- is now louder than my desktop.

Thanks, again. Now time to (hopefully) sell the Air 240 case.

 

[SGT (Ret) Van Haarlem]

i have the air 740. great case. it is pretty much the same as yours but bigger. it will fit everything you will ever need

https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Carbide-Air-740-CC-9011096-WW/dp/B01LHFLPB4

 

[1LT (Ret) Myers]

I used to only use Corsair cases for years, convinced they make the best and only with my new build switched over to an NZXT H440. The case has decent room inside and has some nice cable management grommets, the PSU shroud hides pretty much everything anyways. In terms of airflow it's pretty good. I run my CPU on water and my GPU fan rarely turns on.

That's just my opinion, the H440 works for me and I couldn't recommend it more.

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[SGT (Ret) Bergwohl]

The NZXT S340 Elite is really good and not overpriced.

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I wish I had one.

 

[SFC (Ret) M. Brewer]

Maybe a silly question, but can't you return the card? 

 

[CW4 Adaraan]

Nah. I just sold the old case. Very happy with the resulting build.

 

[SFC (Ret) M. Brewer]

Sweet.  Enjoy the new build!  I've got a GTX 970 and I'm getting an itch to upgrade even though everything (except f'ing Arma) runs beautiful on Ultra settings.  I'll probably look at updating my processor first.  Currently have an i7-4770 @ 3.40GHz which does not suck at all...but there's room for improvement.