- Joined
- Sep 14, 2006
- Location
- Lahaina, Maui
I dunno who to ask, so I hope one of you might be able to help me out. Just got all the pieces to this setup in the mail today. I wanted a smaller PC that still has some power to it. I have 2 diff places and want to be able to take this with me when I need to.
GIGABYTE GA-G33M-S2L Intel G33 Core 2 Quad Socket 775 1333 MHz mATX running a Core 2 Duo Quad 2.66 GHz 1333 MHz with 4gb Ram (Patriot), Nvidia 9800gtx PNY graphics card. All in a Thermaltake VF6000BWS. It looks very sleek, however, I had to modify the cage piece where the CD Devices screw into so the graphics card could fit. The hard disk cage doesn't fit cus of the graphics card either so after fitting it in a smaller enclouser I have laying around, it is velcro'd in. There is room for 1 more LOL.
My problem is the graphics card is so big it covers 3 of the 4 SATA ports. It barely allows room to allow the 1 plug to fit. I wouldn't be so bummed if it were 2 but 3! I was hoping to do a RAID setup with this mini PC but I am being denied. Any suggestions as what I could do? I'm kind of assuming almost all high end graphics cards will cover those 3 slots. It's the only flaw on the moboard in my opinion.
GIGABYTE GA-G33M-S2L Intel G33 Core 2 Quad Socket 775 1333 MHz mATX running a Core 2 Duo Quad 2.66 GHz 1333 MHz with 4gb Ram (Patriot), Nvidia 9800gtx PNY graphics card. All in a Thermaltake VF6000BWS. It looks very sleek, however, I had to modify the cage piece where the CD Devices screw into so the graphics card could fit. The hard disk cage doesn't fit cus of the graphics card either so after fitting it in a smaller enclouser I have laying around, it is velcro'd in. There is room for 1 more LOL.
My problem is the graphics card is so big it covers 3 of the 4 SATA ports. It barely allows room to allow the 1 plug to fit. I wouldn't be so bummed if it were 2 but 3! I was hoping to do a RAID setup with this mini PC but I am being denied. Any suggestions as what I could do? I'm kind of assuming almost all high end graphics cards will cover those 3 slots. It's the only flaw on the moboard in my opinion.