Fire&Blood
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Oh I see what case is that? My psu is on the bottom right so the cable route along the bottom of the HD area. What card you have in there? According to TomsHardware the gigabyte 7970 is 10.5 inches which is like the same size of the gigabyte 670 someone put in their challenger case.
It's a cheap, small atx case made in China by HEC. Initially this was supposed to be just a media PC so it was cheap and it had good reviews.
I have the same clearance as you, the card in there is the one from my sig. It is ~1/4" short of 11". This is a 7970 PCB and the shroud extends a little past it.
You should be able to fit an 11" (i know, i know, that's what she said) in there if you can angle the card enough to get past the drive bay.
Forget those reviews, they are all for the old board, sizes listed in those reviews are no longer current. When I was looking for dimensions, few pages ago, I found different results, ranging from 10.28" to 10.82", the latter being the accurate one. There are less than 10 video cards on this planet that won't fit your case, how unlucky would you have to be?
Would be funny if while worried about length you pick up the triple slot that can't fit
Whatever you do end up buying, take my advice and stack up on fans. To protect your investment, regardless if you want to do use the OC headroom or not, get 2 more 120mm's in the case. I never had the Challenger but you are in the same boat with me regarding cooling. The card running a conservative OC overwhelms small volume cases under full load within a minute. Nothing that 2-3 good fans won't fix though.