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It won't fit if you want to close the side panel.

Also you did the right thing by asking because third party sites do get factual information wrong. (Among others).

In this case part picker will state you cannot fit a Gigabyte G1 970 into the Air 240 (Corsair's website even states the max length as 290mm) - whereas I and many other have actually done it, with room to spare as well as with the front fans fitted.

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1. title your topics correctly

2. PCPartPicker will check that for you

Different PCPartPickers for different countries:

UK-----Italy----Canada-----Spain-----Germany-----Austrailia-----New Zealand-----'Murica-----France-----India

 

10 minutes ago, Stardar1 said:

Well, with an i7, GTX 1080, Full tower and flashy lights, it can obviously only be for one thing:

Solitaire. 

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If i read the msi and corsair sites correctly i would say it doesnt fit because the height of the card is 129mm and the maximum cpu cooler height is 120mm (or it will be damn tight)

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I found this build on PCPP that uses those two components, so I'd guess so:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/b/PpwV3C

 

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Yes it will. It fits the G1.

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It won't fit if you want to close the side panel.

Also you did the right thing by asking because third party sites do get factual information wrong. (Among others).

In this case part picker will state you cannot fit a Gigabyte G1 970 into the Air 240 (Corsair's website even states the max length as 290mm) - whereas I and many other have actually done it, with room to spare as well as with the front fans fitted.

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It won't fit if you want to close the side panel.

Also you did the right thing by asking because third party sites do get factual information wrong. (Among others).

In this case part picker will state you cannot fit a Gigabyte G1 970 into the Air 240 (Corsair's website even states the max length as 290mm) - whereas I and many other have actually done it, with room to spare as well as with the front fans fitted.

I agree i have a g1 atm

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It won't fit if you want to close the side panel.

Also you did the right thing by asking because third party sites do get factual information wrong. (Among others).

In this case part picker will state you cannot fit a Gigabyte G1 970 into the Air 240 (Corsair's website even states the max length as 290mm) - whereas I and many other have actually done it, with room to spare as well as with the front fans fitted.

Also, https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/b/PpwV3C

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Yeah you can see the panel has been forced in that picture if you look closely. It's bowed out in the middle.

The panels are very thin aluminium - some peo may get lucky and they'll fit - I couldn't do it with a different Twin Frozr V card.

Tldr: the GPU will contact the side panels and push it out - at the very least at the power connector points. This is not what you want.

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Yeah you can see the panel has been forced in that picture if you look closely. It's bowed out in the middle.

The panels are very thin aluminium - some peo may get lucky and they'll fit - I couldn't do it with a different Twin Frozr V card.

Tldr: the GPU will contact the side panels and push it out - at the very least at the power connector points. This is not what you want.

Any good alternatives to this card?

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I have the LTT Browser extention

That's ok then, lol :)

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Benchmark Results: 3DMark Firestrike: 10,528 | SteamVR VR Ready (avg. quality 7.1) | VRMark 7,004 (VR Ready)

 

Other systems I've built:

Core i3-6100 | CM Hyper 212 EVO | MSI H110M ECO | Corsair Vengeance LPX 1x8GB DDR4  | ADATA SP550 120GB | Seagate 500GB | EVGA ACX 2.0 GTX 1050 Ti | Fractal Design Core 1500 | Corsair CX450M

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I am not a professional. I am not an expert. I am just a smartass. Don't try and blame me if you break something when acting upon my advice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...why are you still reading this?

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Would keeping the side panel open create a lot of dust?

Yeah you're leaving your case open to any dust buildup unless you create some custom netting from mosquito nets or something similar.

I only mention this because I know someone who did it, don't worry I told him he was a knob for doing it.

It will definitely kill the air pressure in your case which is the other serious loss - you will lose some ability to control temps.

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Yeah you're leaving your case open to any dust buildup unless you create some custom netting from mosquito nets or something similar.

I only mention this because I know someone who did it, don't worry I told him he was a knob for doing it.

It will definitely kill the air pressure in your case which is the other serious loss - you will lose some ability to control temps.

Thats what i thought

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The Nitro will be a tight squeeze if it fits, but it's probably the best 390 anyway.

If you buy your card from somewhere like Amazon you could take advantage of their returns policy if it turn out to be too tall.

Sorry I don't know anyone with a Sapphire 390/X and the measurements are too close to call.

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The Nitro will be a tight squeeze if it fits, but it's probably the best 390 anyway.

If you buy your card from somewhere like Amazon you could take advantage of their returns policy if it turn out to be too tall.

Sorry I don't know anyone with a Sapphire 390/X and the measurements are too close to call.

 

The Nitro will be a tight squeeze if it fits, but it's probably the best 390 anyway.

If you buy your card from somewhere like Amazon you could take advantage of their returns policy if it turn out to be too tall.

Sorry I don't know anyone with a Sapphire 390/X and the measurements are too close to call.

Meh, Is freesync that important, lol my monitor w/freesync costs 200$ less that w/o freesync

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Meh, Is freesync that important, lol my monitor w/freesync costs 200$ less that w/o freesync

I would personally go with some kind of adaptive sync - you will have to decide if you play games that benefit from it (which to be honest is most of them).

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I would personally go with some kind of adaptive sync - you will have to decide if you play games that benefit from it (which to be honest is most of them).

Should i get a 970, ill only be playing at 2560x1080, fyi i will be upgrading to a 980ti in a few months

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