will this videocard fit on my mother board

macetom · 15-January-05, 11:11 AM

Hello Im buying a leadtek 6800 gt A400GA i need to know if if the heatsink is to massive to fit on my my motherboard.........

i have an Epox 9NDA3 mobo

here is the link for the card

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...122-195&depa=0

i want to know if the heat sink is so massive it will collide with transistor (or what ever they are called) on the board

flounder405 · 15-January-05, 01:13 PM

looks to me that it should be allright ...if not you could allways return it.Looks like its going to be a tight fit though. Better make sure your ram is in first .

Rob · 15-January-05, 01:22 PM

I looked and I don't see where you are going to have any problems; however, from the size of that heatsink, better be prepared to give up at least one of your PCI slots if not two of them. That would leave you with only three open PCI slots.

Rob

P.S.
Yeah, and flounder405 is right. Better have your RAM seated first. That card looks longer than normal. Because of that (although unlikely), the heatsink on the card may make contact with the nForce heatsink.

dirtymick01us · 16-January-05, 12:19 AM

The fan 4 the chipset (& the transistors for that matter) looks like it is flush w/ the PCI slots, so u should be fine there. It looks like u will eat up 2 of those slots b/c the heat sink is so huge. The only thing that looks like it will conflict w/ is those SATA connectors. As Flounder & Rob said, the card is long. One reviewer of ur mobo w/ the same video card said it rendered his SATA connectors "useless." It'll be a sweet set-up if it fits, tho (not to mention OC'd). Hope this helps.

15-January-05, 11:11 AM		#1 (permalink)
macetom Apex Advanced Techie	will this videocard fit on my mother board Hello Im buying a leadtek 6800 gt A400GA i need to know if if the heatsink is to massive to fit on my my motherboard......... i have an Epox 9NDA3 mobo here is the link for the card http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...122-195&depa=0 i want to know if the heat sink is so massive it will collide with transistor (or what ever they are called) on the board

16-January-05, 12:19 AM		#4 (permalink)
dirtymick01us Apex Techie Wannabe	Wow, Big Card. The fan 4 the chipset (& the transistors for that matter) looks like it is flush w/ the PCI slots, so u should be fine there. It looks like u will eat up 2 of those slots b/c the heat sink is so huge. The only thing that looks like it will conflict w/ is those SATA connectors. As Flounder & Rob said, the card is long. One reviewer of ur mobo w/ the same video card said it rendered his SATA connectors "useless." It'll be a sweet set-up if it fits, tho (not to mention OC'd). Hope this helps. Last edited by dirtymick01us; 16-January-05 at 12:24 AM..

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15-January-05, 01:13 PM		#2 (permalink)
flounder405 The Mack Daddy	looks to me that it should be allright ...if not you could allways return it.Looks like its going to be a tight fit though. Better make sure your ram is in first .

15-January-05, 01:22 PM		#3 (permalink)
Rob Advocatus Diaboli	I looked and I don't see where you are going to have any problems; however, from the size of that heatsink, better be prepared to give up at least one of your PCI slots if not two of them. That would leave you with only three open PCI slots. Rob P.S. Yeah, and flounder405 is right. Better have your RAM seated first. That card looks longer than normal. Because of that (although unlikely), the heatsink on the card may make contact with the nForce heatsink.