Tell jcap to post his desk, and post yours too! [JCAP POST YOUR DESK]

That is, there's really no reason to mount them in drive bays since they have no moving parts. Lots of high-end rigs I've seen have them suspended just off the surface they're sitting on, usually by making use of some type of clear materiel under them. And they're either on the bottom of the case or on compartment tops in cases with bottom compartments separated with a horizontal "shelf".

@InnerGoat, look at my case and wiring, do that. You have a regular length PSU so you can get all your PSU wires out of the way VERY easy in the 690.

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Why does it need three, if you want the best cooling go water and make it only take up ONE slot...

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Water's too much effort and maintenance for me and a lot of other people who don't want to deal with flushing/algae/sources of liquid right inside their valuable (and in their current financial situation, irreplaceable) electronic device.

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Why does it need three, if you want the best cooling go water and make it only take up ONE slot...

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I wanted something other than the hot noisy stock cooler, and 10 dollars more compared to stock cards for that was really nice.

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Missed it. Thought that was something else. Also, ATi and nVidia in the same PC? For PhysX, I presume?

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It's a GTX 570. Games would actually run slower if the 8500GT was used for physx :eng101:

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Is that a SSD just hanging out on the bottom there? D:

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It's screwed into the bottom where a fan used to be, but yeah SSDs can go anywhere really.

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@InnerGoat, look at my case and wiring, do that. You have a regular length PSU so you can get all your PSU wires out of the way VERY easy in the 690.

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Wires are too stiff bro. When I upgrade the rest of the box I'll replace it with a Corsair that has flat cabling maybe. :haw:

corsair owns

Got stiff wires? Heatgun/hair dryer. Apply enough heat so the wires will bend where you want them to.

Nah I have no reason to. Next box will be new everything, besides the GPU and SSD so I'll make that one nice:)

I've only seen a triple slot ATI card, I hadn't realised that ASUS used the same cooler on an Nvidia board.

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I've only seen a triple slot ATI card, I hadn't realised that ASUS used the same cooler on an Nvidia board.

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I've seen ASUS do some crazy things on ATi cards and vice versa. Thing is that you can expect their contraptions to spill to the other brand soon enough.

jw, can some 1 here help me with overclocking my striker extreme. im kinda new to it, and whenever i het to about 2.8 ghz it gets unstable for some reason, when a c2de6600 realy should be able to go much faster. alby, some help mayby, accept for gfx, we hae very similar systems.

I have a Striker Extreme, sounds to me like you're running into the same issues I had. The board is factory flawed and can't provide enough voltage to the CPU for overclocking, it sucks but I can't overclock past 3.0 GHz on my Q6600 from 2.4 GHz stock.