Originally this post was going to be a review of this video card, but instead, it’s a consumer warning. Having mostly been a lightweight gamer, I’ve never felt the need to buy a full tower case. I only need a few drives, a single video card and maybe a large CPU cooler, but a mini-tower case has filled my needs since I bought my first PC.
However, last week I upgraded my video card. My Nvidia-based BFG 7950GT can’t handle the new games out there and even the latest patch to World of Warcraft (3.0.2) dropped my FPS quite significantly. The new GTX 260’s will handle almost everything that games can dish out now, except for the fact that it’s huge! It weights in a 2x heavier than my laptop (albiet the lightweight e4200) and it’s 10.5″ long. That means that my poor Antec Solo case cannot fit it behind the internal drive bays.
Off to Canada Computers to look for a new case…
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