Space issues...

[pederson_76]

Hey everyone, I am pretty new to this site. I have a Raidmax Smilodon case with some issues. I recently added 2 hard drives and there isn't enough room for a graphics card. I put my dead 4830 in just to see and there is no way both the card and the drives can be there(they both fit without any hookups barely, the psu connecters conflict with each other though).

I'm wondering if this is normal for a mid tower case. I'm thinking I will have to get a different case, especially if I ever get a real graphics card. I really like the Antec 900, would a case like this run into the same problem?

 

[fastamdman]

There are no other drive bays? Maybe you have the drive mounted to high? I don't know about your case, but for most cases you can still fit in a decent card and a few hard drives, although at times it can be a tight squeeze and for swapping drives you might have to pull the gfx card.

 

[pederson_76]

I have 3 drives mounted at the bottom with access to my top pci-e right now. I could move them up to the FDD slots, then again if I ever wanted to do crossfire/sli the 2nd slot wouldnt be usable...
There is about exactly 1" from the end of a 4830 to a harddrive(with no power hooked up) and my card is only like 8 1/4"...

 

[pederson_76]

Nevermind, I just did some browsing and it looks like most cards are shorter than that.
There is 11 1/4" to the hdd cage, about 9 1/4" to a hdd in the same slot.