malkav11

I have received my new GeForce 9800GTX+. I knew that they said it was large. What I did not expect is the most immense add-on card I have ever seen. Ever. It is fucking immense. Elephantine. A comparison shot, taken in slightly blurry, nonphotographer Palm-o-vision:




What the fuck. I have doubts this will even fit in my case. We'll see in a bit, I guess.

Update: Yay! It does! Barely!

And I mean, there's almost no room at all between it and the hard drive bays. I had to move one of my two hard drives in order to make this possible, and do a lot of ridiculous cable contortions and such. That would be bad enough, but it requires two(!) power connectors to feed its gaping maw. Why is this bad? Well, moving the hard drive means I can't connect it to the second connector on my SATA power cable anymore, which means I had to add a second one, in addition to the IDE cable that powers my DVD drive. There are four power cable slots on my supply, which meant that I had to choose between not powering my DVD drive (and replacing it later with an SATA model), or doing one PCI-E cable and one PCI-E to IDE adapter cable to power the card. I went with the latter, but it worries me. Still, Windows booted up fine, so we'll see.